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Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Mon Jan 29 12:14:24 1996

From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@unix1.bart.nl>
To: amb@Xara.NET (Alex.Bligh)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 18:03:41 +0100 (MET)
Cc: amb@Xara.NET, Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net, nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@iepg.org,
        iab@isi.edu, iesg@isi.edu, iana@isi.edu, local-ir@ripe.net
In-Reply-To: <199601291642.QAA09648@diamond.xara.net> from "Alex.Bligh" at Jan 29, 96 04:42:34 pm

> > No they don't. You can ask the RIPE NCC for special PI space to assign to 
> > this customer. It seems they have a "chemical waste dump" to satisfy 
> > this kind of requests from.

> Ah. That will be the "chemical waste dump" that Daniel K said
> he didn't care about whether it got routed or not (no offence
> Daniel - neither do I), and is all but unaggregatable so presumably
> Sprintlink et al. won't want to waste their CPUs routing it as well.

Well that's their policy, so it's their problem. As an ISP selling 
"global Internet connectivity" I may choose to take that policy into 
consideration, but I'm sure most people don't give a damn.

(This is starting to get more and more like FidoNet...)

> What hope for a customer with those IP numbers?

The anti-trust laws.  ;-)

Iljitsch

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