[36497] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike harrison)
Mon Apr 9 18:09:56 2001
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:07:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
To: "John K. Doyle, Jr." <John.Doyle@oracle.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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John said:
> Well, you could acquire a company that already has one. :)
That has been the suggestion from several people.
I've even considered it, especially when one of my local
competitors has a /18, and they are much smaller than we are.
We 'NAT' an incredible amount of dial-up and commercial customers
to reduce our need for public IP's, and trends thankfully went to
customers WANTING to be NAT'd and Proxied for 'firewall' reasons,
with only a few public IP's.
It seems a poor reasons for acquiring a company, as they
really do not "own" the address space. --Mike--
