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Re: ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kim Hubbard)
Fri May 15 21:10:43 1998

To: jamie@ais.net
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:59:17 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: jeremiah@fs.IConNet.NET, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805152049.PAA18478@dilbert.ais.net> from "James Rishaw" at May 15, 98 03:49:51 pm
From: Kim Hubbard <kimh@arin.net>

> 
> Jeremiah Kristal wrote:
> > ARIN has made a slight change to make it easier for small ISPs to get
> > provider independant netblocks.  They will assign a /20 and reserve the
> > adjacent /20, the customer is allowed to announce the entire /19.
> > For further information, please view http://www.arin.net/initial-isp.html
> 
> Now, let's `cat post | bullshitfilter.pl` and see what we get:
> 
> ARIN has made a slight change to make it easier for them to make more
> money by allowing anyone to register for IPs.  They will assign a /20 and
> reserve the adjacent /20...
> 
> $
> 
> Ahh, that makes more sense now.

ARIN just can't win with some people :-)  If we don't change policy, we're
evil....if we do, we're greedy.  *sigh*

Kim

> 
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