Why does Sprint have address filters again?

Kim Hubbard kimh at arin.net
Thu May 28 19:36:13 UTC 1998


> 
> On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 02:58:35PM -0400, Kim Hubbard wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 10:40:03AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 08:08:57PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
> > > > [ Karl asks a bunch of cogent questions and then scares the shit out of
> > > >   me by following up with: ]
> > > > > [This is a request as an ARIN AC member, who has tried to get a lot of 
> > > > > these kinds of questions answered from officers and trustees of ARIN]
> > > > 
> > > > Would it be out of line for me to ask why you are having so much
> > > > difficulty _getting_ answers to these questions that you need to ask
> > > > them here?  This whole ARIN thing is starting to smell somewhat like the
> > > > InterNIC does...
> > > 
> > > ARIN has asserted that individual members (and in fact individual AC members)
> > > don't have a right to have these types of questions answered.
> > 
> > ARIN has NEVER asserted that members or individuals have no right to
> > have these types of questions answered.  
> 
> Should I repost the list of questions I've sent through the AC list (without
> answer) to NANOG Kim?

That's up to you and the rest of the AC, it's their mailing list.  

Kim

> 
> > To my knowledge, neither Karl nor anyone else that I can think of, has asked
> > ARIN any questions regarding it's involvement in Sprint's decision to
> > filter prefixes.   If someone is asking now, the answer is that the
> > registries (ARIN didn't even exist at the time Sprint began filtering)
> > had no involvement other than to request that Sprint lower their filters
> > from a /18 to a /19.  
> > 
> > Kim Hubbard
> > ARIN
> 
> This discussion wasn't ONLY about Sprint's decision to filter prefixes.
> 
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