> You can't "purchase" an ASN, they're integers. They're allocated to
> anyone who needs one.
As I recall, they are assigned, but with quite a fee. Basically,
purchased. This information can be found at http://www.arin.net, and I
should probably have read it before posting.
> > setting up multihoming is hard enough when you are a big corp
> > or an ISP and you can isolate the borders. I'm talking about an
> > (inter)net with a potentially ever-expanding edge, where leafs can turn
> > into nodes
>
> That's what the Internet is, and it works fine, and it's not hard to do.
>
> If you think it's hard, god help us if you try to make it easier for us
> by changing protocols.
The technology is not what's hard, it's getting vendors to play
nice, and treat you as a customer, unless you have the big bucks.
> How is this not a solved problem? Is there some extension you want to
> add to BGP at this late date?
Using something else might be a better choice. Installing more RAM
in my router than in my workstation just to hold routing tables doesn't
make sense to me, and as the internet grows, hardcore net functions will
be out of the hands of most (small) organizations. Also, our colo keeps
dropping offline when there is bogus BGP data -- that's no fun.
Something about Searl's paper (or was it something else) about
data-consumers, vs. actual internet nodes.
Again, I should probably have done a bit more research before I
sent this -- flame-on.
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