Joe Abley wrote:
On 23 Nov 2008, at 21:17, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Presumably it's from the "Origin AS" field in WHOIS:
Ah, thanks (and also thanks to others who pointed that out off-list).
That seems like a weird anachronism, to be honest. Perhaps it's only
because nobody has ever tried to use it for anything that there's never
been any reason for the ARIN community to propose that the collection of
such information be stopped.
Joe
The policy is relatively new.. (Spring 2007) and adopted by the ARIN
community after vetting at 2 meetings.. It's optional, so I can't
imagine why anyone would propose that ARIN stop collecting this information.
http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2006_3.html
It may be that it's "newness" helps w/ the accuracy.. only time will tell.
--heather
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