Re: ARIN?

[Kim Hubbard <kimh () arin net>]

> Gary E. Miller wrote:
>
> > My local cable company, Bend Cable, gives out static IP with RoadRunner
> > service.
> >
> > I also know several folks on @Home in Fremont, CA, that have static
> > IP addresses.
>
> Our dedicated accounts get static, as I am sure is the case with most ISPs.
> Non-dedicated can get static only for a fee.  The rate structure starts at
> $8 for a /32 and goes up to about 25% above the ARIN fee for address space.
> The customer must also assert why they need it.
>
> I just wish I could swip the /30's, /31's, and /32's we give out, to ARIN.
> We're putting in more NAT and proxy boxes for businesses and are doing more
> networks smaller than /29 these days.  Yet ARIN still encourages us to use
> a /29 when a /32 would do.  I'll probably swip the /29 containing them as
> just a commentary saying something like "contains /32 assignments" when I
> get my network database going.

By asking you not to SWIP assignments longer than /29 ARIN is not
encouraging you to not issue them, we just don't think it's necessary
to have every single dialup user listed in WHOIS.

Kim
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