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RE: ARIN?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Nov 5 10:43:13 1998

Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:18:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@mindspring.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199811050907.EAA02663@cliff.concentric.net>

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, I Am Not An Isp wrote:

> The point is, the people I know at @Home do try very hard to use their IP
> space within reason.  But there are some things they just can not do.
> 
> There are two sides to every story.  (Well, almost every story.... ;)

Then why is it that whenever we ask for extra space because of issues like
this (in our case, we'd like to be able to assign /19 blocks for each
larger POP so that it can be independantly routed in the Internet) we get
told, sorry, that's an operational issue, we won't assign space for that.

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