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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Eric A. Hall wrote: > > Actually, the last I heard is that they will sell down to a /24. > > No. See http://www.arin.net/regserv/feeschedule.html > > "The minimum block of IP address space assigned by ARIN is a /20." > > Also, they don't have any special-case handling that I am aware of. I > tried to get a private /24 to use for the topology examples in my books > and couldn't get one. ARIN outright refused the request even though I > could prove the need for it, and even though I didn't care about global > routing or reachability. > > I was also told that any /24 that I might manage to acquire would be > revoked instead of transferred to me. > > I honestly believe that ARIN is funded by stock ownership in NAT provder > technologies. They are the primary reason that we have NAT and RFC 1918 > problems on the net everyday. No, thats really not fair. I'm probably more of a NAT hater then most people here, but I can't agree with that. The reason they don't allocate /24's is because without aggregation the Internet is not scalable. Perhaps they are being too agressive, but the reasoning is sound.
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