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RE: ARIN?

  • From: I Am Not An Isp
  • Date: Fri Nov 06 04:31:40 1998

At 02:49 AM 11/6/98 -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:

>So can I qualify for my own chunk of space (I'll be nice and only ask for
>a /16) if I use RIP and can't subnet?  I find it hard to believe ARIN
>would buy "but my routers won't let me subnet" as justification for
>address space.

First of all, I think we've established that @Home's current utilization is
pretty good.

Secondly, @Home wasn't using classfull addressing at first because they
didn't want to put in the effort, they simply had no choice.  There was no
equipment available at the time which would do CIDR.  So, it was either
allocate them X amount and make @Home renumber into CIDR when the software
was available to do CIDR (which they were in the process of doing last time
I talked to them), or put them out of business.

Personally, I don't think ARIN should be in charge of deciding who stays in
business because the state of the technology isn't up to their standards.
Nor do I think we should stifle new technologies because it doesn't
suddenly appear on the scene fully mature.  I'm all for saving address
space, but not at the cost of random

But then again, I'm not ARIN - hell, some would say I'm not even an ISP. :p

> Jon Lewis <[email protected]>  |  Spammers will be winnuked or 

TTFN,
patrick

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