[144692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Sep 16 17:39:36 2011
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:38:40 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1109161723560.17783@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> As an ISP, ARIN will not give you any space if you are new. You have to
>> already have an equivalent amount of space from another provider. I
>> think it is really stupid, and encourages wasting IP space, but that is
>> what the current policy is.
>
> If you go to ARIN, day one, and ask for address space, they have no way of
> determining if your request is justified, beyond whatever pie-in-the-sky
> guesses and growth projections you give them.
why is this not a problem in any other region?
randy
