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Re: ARIN?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@nac.net)
Tue Nov 3 22:59:15 1998

From: alex@nac.net
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:51:18 -0500 (EST)
To: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981103194723.Z18577@shrubbery.net>

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, john heasley wrote:

> 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?


Yes, but everytime we apply?

I think it's rediculous for them to ask us to break it down by
geographical locations.

> can't speak for those folks, but Verio has been asked the same/similar
> questions.

Uh huh. Interesting.



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