[16905] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sat May 16 16:43:12 1998
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 16:36:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
cc: jamie@ais.net, Jeremiah Kristal <jeremiah@fs.IConNet.NET>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980516152145.42206@mcs.net>
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
> Why do you need to renumber out of previous space if MCI doesn't have to
> when they get a bigger block handed to them?
Well...because I knew from day 1 that our UUNet space was non-portable,
and that we were effectively borrowing it.
> Why should your *customers* bear the burden of this policy?
This was the part that sucked. Renumbering was a bitch, but with proper
planning, it really wasn't too big a deal...just lots of work.
Renumbering is one of those tasks during which you really find out which
of your customers have clues and which are a few clues short of a full
deck.
> My point: you shouldn't, and your customer's shouldn't. You should, as a
> multi-homed ISP, be able to get a /19 immediately and without obstruction -
> period.
We didn't start out multihomed. We were singlehomed for 3 years. Are you
saying we should have been able to keep our UUNet IP space (even though we
left UUNet)?
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