> Of course if it was already assigned when IANA said that (no dates on > the link above) then maybe the fault is more IANA's for telling another > RIR that they could allocate an ASN that another RIR already allocated.
i suspect that, in the erx project, there may have been more than one case of the iana saying "ok, X now manages this block, excpet of course for those pieces already allocated by Y and Z." and the latter were not always well defined or easily learnable, and were not registered directly with the iana, but other rirs. <rant> and the data are all buried in whois, which is not well-defined, stats files, which are not defined, etc. the rirs, in the thrall of nih (you did know that ripe/ncc invented the bicycle), spent decades not agreeing on common formats, protocols, or code. this is one result thereof. testosterone kills, and the community gets the collateral damage. randy
