[21264] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Mon Nov 9 13:52:57 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 10:27:35 -0800
To: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: Kim Hubbard <kimh@arin.net>, Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>,
gem@rellim.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981108233730.26233@shell.nacs.net>
At 11:37 PM 11/8/98 -0500, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
>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.
So it goes from a few hundred MB's to a few GBs? What's the big deal. Given
a trivial CustomerDB, in an RDBMS, it's still under 100 GB for a few
million IPs. 150 GB of RAID5 is still less than $30KUS and dropping daily,
even on HP (High Priced <grin>) equipment.
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