[YA] Fwd: Class B Purchase

Tue Oct 6 23:56:59 UTC 1998

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> > I also think the registries should actually be registries and
> > not try to be the Internet's mommy.
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> IMHO it is part of an IP registry's job to make sure that applications for
> IP address space meet the publicly agreed upon criteria. And if that
> criteria says that you need to justify the quantity of addresses you
> receive, it may be mommy work but it is necessary work. But I want to know
> why ARIN cannot simply issue an appropriately sized portable block of
> addresses to anyone who is legitimately multihomed? Why can't ARIN
> maintain a register of companies who are multihomed and tag their IP
> allocations, of whatever size, as "portable". I suppose we could sidestep
> Sprint and use the swamp addresses which Sprint filters on a /24 boundary.
> But why can't we just carve off a chunk of 214/8 and "register" it to
> organizations who need portable space in chunks smaller than /19?
> 
> This just makes too much sense to me.

Michael,  

Could you define "legitimately multihomed" please?  

Kim

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