[21252] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Mon Nov 9 00:20:23 1998
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:37:30 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Kim Hubbard <kimh@arin.net>
Cc: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>, gem@rellim.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199811090001.TAA25692@ops.arin.net>; from Kim Hubbard on Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 07:01:13PM -0500
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 07:01:13PM -0500, Kim Hubbard wrote:
> By asking you not to SWIP assignments longer than /29 ARIN is not
> encouraging you to not issue them, we just don't think it's necessary
> to have every single dialup user listed in WHOIS.
I have to agree with Kim. That's why I shuddered when I thought of
every single static IP address at every ISP being SWIP'd. It would increase
ARIN's database exponentially and is not necessary.
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