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On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:30:28PM -0500, Ralph Doncaster wrote: > > People depend on ARIN's IP assignments being widely routable. When 2 > different ARIN clients pay the same amount of money for leasing an IP > block, the "goods" they receive should be of the same quality. You are under the delusion tht ARIN is selling goods. If they were, we'd all have something to complain about. ARIN is selling you 5 bytes, a couple records for contact info, a whois server, a template processing system which takes 3 days to work, and meetings in tropical locations (for $2500+, sounds fair right? :P). Under this logic you would like them to sell you low ASNs because high ones don't get much respect and are therefore defective? How about refusing to take 3.1.33.7 because it got spoofed and/or packeted a lot? ARIN should make a good faith effort to hand out registrations which are going to be usable, but it is not their job to make sure noone else on the internet dislikes your IP. Besides, the policies usually follow ARIN, not the other way around. People design prefix length filters around the RIR allocation sizes, not arbitrary numbers the expect the RIR's to follow. People unfilter prefixes when they start getting allocated, not because they feel like they should so ARIN can allocate from it. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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