Please send me your comments

[Bryan Socha]

I finally am at a company that welcomes me to get involved and the time to
actually attend meetings so I'm happy to finally be able to get involved...

I agree with some other people to attempt to figure out what the goal of the
working group will be so it can be decided how to collect the data we need
to analyze the situation.

Something I wanted to throw out at this point... Has anyone ever looked at
the ability to reclaim old asns that will never be used again? 

-----Original Message-----
From: CJW [mailto:cjw at remarque.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 4:19 PM
To: rtma at arin.net
Cc: gih at telstra.net
Subject: Please send me your comments


Hi everyone out there in rtma-land,

I think it's time I try again to get you all involved.  I'd like to
come up with a list of agenda topics and perhaps meet as a working group
at the next ARIN meeting.  So far some topics I can think of are:

ways to summarize the routing table info:
   a) discuss Scott Marcus's info on AS number depletion
      (perhaps compare it to Geoff Huston's data presented
       last week at the APNIC meeting)
   b) how do assigned ASNs compare to the ones showing up 
      in the routing table?
   c) how many prefixes are being assigned per ASN?
   d) perhaps compare registered prefixes and length to 
      advertisements.  For example how many advertisements
      are generated for each assigned prefix?
   e) perhaps query experts on when the existing network 
      equipment will no longer be able to handle the size of
      the routing table (not just # of prefixes but number of
      paths, not just amount of memory required, but what happens
      if there are flaps)

Any other thoughts?  What info should we be gathering? (if any)

Thanks for your help!
---Cathy