ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?

Fri May 15 20:49:51 UTC 1998

Jeremiah Kristal wrote:
> ARIN has made a slight change to make it easier for small ISPs to get
> provider independant netblocks.  They will assign a /20 and reserve the
> adjacent /20, the customer is allowed to announce the entire /19.
> For further information, please view http://www.arin.net/initial-isp.html

Now, let's `cat post | bullshitfilter.pl` and see what we get:

ARIN has made a slight change to make it easier for them to make more
money by allowing anyone to register for IPs.  They will assign a /20 and
reserve the adjacent /20...

$

Ahh, that makes more sense now.

-jamie the cynic :)
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