ARIN?

Tue Nov 10 23:58:38 UTC 1998

Thus spake John Fraizer
>OK.  How about I re-word this a bit and see how it goes:

>>> >I think this misses the point.  ARIN doesn't require or want you to SWIP
>>> >your /30 and /32 allocations.  A network that small just doesn't require
>>> >that level of public contact visibility. 

>...should read:

>"I think this misses the point.  ARIN doesn't require or want you to SWIP
>your /30 and /32 allocations.  

First sentence wasn't in dispute of course.  :)

>An _address_allocation_ that small just doesn't
>require that level of public contact visibility."

Here I disagree.  As I (and others have pointed out) there are people
with /32's that have just as much administrative control over their IP
"space" as someone with a /25 might have.  I have *several* customers,
and we're not all that big of an ISP, that have *full* administrative
control over their IP space with the one exception of reverse lookups.

>Now, can we all agree that /30's and /32's are small allocations in the
>grand scheme of it all and that the size or the organizations/networks that
>use addresses in those allocations can not be accurately determined by the
>size of the allocation alone?  Good.

I do definitely agree with this.  :)
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