[24386] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Difficulties
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Wed Jun 23 23:56:34 1999
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:54:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990623214000.2238A-100000@mail.wiltec.twc.com>
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Geoff Mohler wrote:
> Who do you go to, when you've spent a year detailing everything ARIN wants
> when you ask for address space, then they decide to flush an installed and
> operating $2B business plan "just because".
You hire a consultant who is intelligent enough to know how to negotiate
without hanging out your dirty linen on a public mailing list.
Anyone who has 2 billion dollars and cannot justify portable address space
has a screw loose somewhere. Last time I was involved in a startup that
applied for address space we managed to justify it at around the same time
our spending had reached 1 million dollars.
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