Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report?

[jabley at hopcount.ca (Joe Abley)]

On 23 Nov 2008, at 21:17, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

> Presumably it's from the "Origin AS" field in WHOIS:

Ah, thanks (and also thanks to others who pointed that out off-list).

That seems like a weird anachronism, to be honest. Perhaps it's only  
because nobody has ever tried to use it for anything that there's  
never been any reason for the ARIN community to propose that the  
collection of such information be stopped.


Joe