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On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 12:18:16AM -0400, Gregory Urban wrote: > >On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Geoff Mohler wrote: > >> >> Who do you go to, when you've spent a year detailing everything ARIN wants >> when you ask for address space, then they decide to flush an installed and >> operating $2B business plan "just because". >> > >It's not about your budget, or your plans. It's all about "What have you >done, and how fast have you used the /19 your provider gave you." > >This is one of the few places in the world where millionares and bag >ladies get treated equally (poorly). > ARIN bases their policy upon input from their membership, or so I am led to believe by their staff. They didn't just arbitrarily pick /19 (/20 currently) as being cutoff. In addition, they have no say in what makes space routable. That is set semi-arbitrarily by your (or someone else's) NSP. As noted in an earlier post, there will be a public policy meeting for ARIN in October. If you don't like current policy come express your views. Austin
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