ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?

Sat May 16 19:27:48 UTC 1998

On Sat, May 16, 1998 at 03:07:20PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 15 May 1998, James Rishaw 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...
> 
> That must have been your bullshitify.pl filter.
> 
> The change made it possible for many "small" ISPs to truely multihome.
> FDT is one of them.  When I found out about "the change", I was about to
> renumber FDT into Digex address space, since we did not qualify under the
> old rules for an ARIN CIDR block (immediately fill 80% of a /19).  The
> /20 Digex was going to give us was in filtered space, meaning anyone
> filtering BGP like Sprint would not see our advertisements and would only
> have reached us through Digex...making our additional T1's to the net
> somewhat pointless.
> 
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You should not have had the original problem (IMHO of course).

Consider, Jon, what happens if you fail to meet the criteria to keep that
whole /19 - some time down the road.

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