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Re: recent update from ARIN

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Mon Feb 1 23:24:45 1999

From: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>
To: jlewis@lewis.org (Jon Lewis)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:52:16 -0600 (CST)
Cc: tim@clipper.net, kimh@arin.net, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com,
        nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990201221836.14138j-100000@tarkin.fdt.net> from "Jon Lewis" at Feb 1, 99 10:25:25 pm

> This reminds me of something else I recently wondered though.  According to
> the ARIN rules that allow an ISP to qualify for a /19 that they have 18
> months to grow into, if the ISP fails to do so, the top half of that /19 can
> be revoked.  What means can/does ARIN use to prevent such an ISP from
> continuing to announce the /19 rather than just a /20?  Does/can ARIN 
> pressure the ISP's upstreams to filter the /19?

Just double the size of your current announcement and see what happens.
It might be considered a DoS incident.

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