[21115] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (john heasley)
Tue Nov 3 22:56:02 1998
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 19:47:23 -0800
From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
To: alex@nac.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811032225410.10698-100000@iago.nac.net>; from alex@nac.net on Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 10:28:07PM -0500
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 10:28:07PM -0500, alex@nac.net wrote:
>
> Again, we are applying for more space from ARIN.
>
> Some of the questions we got from them range from "please provide a
> network map and/or customers justification as to why they needed a /24" to
> "please provide where your POPs are, how many dialups there are in that
> POP, and how many ports you have in that dialup."
i think this is perfectly reasonable. "please provide where your
POPs are" seems a bit extreme, you should have all this information
immediately available anyway. right?
> I'd love to know if larger places (UU? PSI? MCI? Sprint? etc) have to
> answer questions like this when they apply for space.
can't speak for those folks, but Verio has been asked the same/similar
questions.
> I don't want to hear an answer from ARIN, I would like feedback from
> actual customers of ARIN.
>
> Thanks.
>
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