On 11/02/22 12:44, Geoff Huston wrote:
AS9503 was assigned by APNIC on the 23rd March 1999 - so whatever the pedigree of this AS it does not predate 1999.
That 1999 date predates the incorporation of FX Networks Ltd, in August 2003, by a few years: https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/1371006... and I'm fairly sure that FX Networks didn't buy Comnet until a while after there was a FX Networks company (there was some earlier development on VoIP systems prior to the company formation too). My guess from the history (some of which Jamie Baddeley mentioned up thread) is that possibly Comnet had a single upstream in the early years, and didn't need its own ASN until the late 1990s. Still, definitely a bit sad to see AS9503 disappear from the Internet, even if the organisation most associated with it (FX Networks Ltd) was long since merged into Vocus, et al. Ewen