AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time

[morrowc.lists at gmail.com (Christopher Morrow)]

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:46 PM, James Breeden <James at arenalgroup.co> wrote:

>
> I'm amazed at the number of AS numbers that are assigned, but not actively
> being used.


'not actuvely being used' ... how would you (or anyone) know? what if they
were used only on some internal part of a large public network which never
leaked beyond their borders/uses? What if the ASN is used on a large
private network? (for instance.. where I know of several such things).

-chris
 (mark andrews makes this same, valid, point)