[72057] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Can a customer take IP's with them?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Tue Jun 29 10:58:48 2004
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:58:12 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
VJB> From: Vincent J. Bono
VJB> I think one avenue of approach will be to see if
VJB> ARIN would grant you another contiguous block to
VJB> replace not just what the customer got but the
VJB> entire block they have polluted.
> Edward B. Dreger
> I thought of that, too. However, that would require
> NAC renumbering an entire /17 because an ex-customer
> is too lazy to renumber a /24.[*] If NAC's ex-customer
> thinks renumbering a /24 is excessive, what about
> something two orders of magnitude larger?
Indeed, but that's not the worst part. Should this happen, it would mean
that the ex-customer just got PI space for free. Then the floodgates
would open and a bunch of "why-not-me-too" would sue their ISPs to
transform their PA block into a free PI block.
Michel.
