> 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.
Yes, as well as the policies of APNIC, LACNIC, and RIPE, the other RIRs.
You don't pay for ASNs, you may or may not pay registration fees or
membership fees, depending upon whether you choose to join the
organization or not. No, you don't have to pay for an ASN if you don't
want to, only if you feel like being a good citizen and supporting the
RIRs.
> 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.
Right. And the IETF doesn't codify standards of niceness, it codifies
standards of protocol interoperation at layers 3-7.
> 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...
Your workstation really has less than 64mb of RAM?
-Bill
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