[113785] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Tue Apr 21 17:58:07 2009
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To: Shane Ronan <sronan@fattoc.com>
In-Reply-To: <328B8B3B-9DD0-440A-99E4-B37193074CC9@fattoc.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:55:23 -0700
Cc: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>, nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Shane Ronan wrote:
> Mr Curran, given the response you've seen from the group, and in
> particular the argument that most CEO's or Officers of firms will
> simply sign off on what they IT staff tells them (as they have
> little to no understanding of the situation),
You really should go ask a CEO if he'd sign off on something that he
doesn't understand. Really. I can assure you that your impression is
wrong, and most CEOs don't prefer to be standing in court defending
their actions.
> can you explain what exactly you are hoping to achieve by heaping on
> yet an additional requirement to the already over burdensome process
> of receiving an IPv4 allocation?
Burdensome? Really? If you have your documentation together it takes
about 15 minutes from beginning of the application form until
receiving your new allocation. I spend longer on hold any time I deal
with any other vendor.
--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
