[30899] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 allocatin (was Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kim Hubbard)
Fri Sep 1 09:48:43 2000
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From: "Kim Hubbard" <kimh@arin.net>
To: "Daniel Senie" <dts@senie.com>,
"Patrick Greenwell" <patrick@cybernothing.org>
Cc: "David R. Conrad" <David.Conrad@nominum.com>,
"Ted Beatie" <ted@mirror-image.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:07:19 -0400
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From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
To: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
Cc: David R. Conrad <David.Conrad@nominum.com>; Ted Beatie
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Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: IPv6 allocatin (was Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting)
>
> Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>
> > Gosh, doesn't that beg the question: why don't we require the return of
> > all that wasted space that was delegated to anyone and everyone so long
> > ago?
>
> Ah, but if you return your legacy blocks, you're no longer a member of
> ARIN. Apparently those holding blocks from the old days are
> automatically made members, so there's a financial incentive from ARIN
> itself to avoid return of any historic delegation.
Um...no, that's not the policy. Only subscription holders are automatic
members (meaning membership is included in the annual maintenance fee of
ISPs).
Kim
>
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> Daniel Senie dts@senie.com
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