ARIN

Mon Nov 9 15:02:14 UTC 1998

[Someone with a clue one said...*grin*]

Hrmmmm, you have a major point.  Suppose only routers costing 6 figures or
more could do CIDR, while routers costing, say, four figures could do
RIPv1?  Should we give someone a large block to get "up and running" until
they could afford the much more expensive routers?
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See, I just don't think "Address Space" should be a barrier to entry.  It's
not like ARIN *owns* the space, they're just the caretaker for the IPv4
space in America for the "community".  As a member of the community, I want
them to be fugal to avoid waste.  But unusually large (and temporary)
allocations to allow a company to enter the market - a company that would
otherwise have to perform Herculean tasks, tasks none of the rest of us
have ever had to perform, or maybe even tasks impossible with the State of
the Art - is not, IMHO, waste.
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What about the case of an NSP looking to obtain a block to begin business
with?

A case where the parent company (via direct ownership and mergers) holds a
couple of  /16 allocations across a nationwide LAN infrastructure, and at
the same time is not able to deliver to a spinoff arm of the company a
'clean' chunk of space to bring up a very large Internet Backbone.  At the
same time, the parent company has 0 SWIP documentation of the existing /16s
and is still about 18 months away from a total migration to 10.x.x.x space
internally.

What is ARINs job at this point?  To force the spinoff to document the IP
allocations within the Sister company before they allow you to do business,
or based on the current and future deployment (and CIDR capabilities)
allocate sufficient address space to allow the business to launch and grow.