[21303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Mcadams)
Tue Nov 10 19:13:16 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:58:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
Thus spake John Fraizer
>OK. How about I re-word this a bit and see how it goes:
>>> >I think this misses the point. ARIN doesn't require or want you to SWIP
>>> >your /30 and /32 allocations. A network that small just doesn't require
>>> >that level of public contact visibility.
>...should read:
>"I think this misses the point. ARIN doesn't require or want you to SWIP
>your /30 and /32 allocations.
First sentence wasn't in dispute of course. :)
>An _address_allocation_ that small just doesn't
>require that level of public contact visibility."
Here I disagree. As I (and others have pointed out) there are people
with /32's that have just as much administrative control over their IP
"space" as someone with a /25 might have. I have *several* customers,
and we're not all that big of an ISP, that have *full* administrative
control over their IP space with the one exception of reverse lookups.
>Now, can we all agree that /30's and /32's are small allocations in the
>grand scheme of it all and that the size or the organizations/networks that
>use addresses in those allocations can not be accurately determined by the
>size of the allocation alone? Good.
I do definitely agree with this. :)
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