Re: ARIN?

[Dan Watts <dwatts () vitts com>]

At 10:49 AM 11/9/98 -0800, you wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> > I have to agree with Kim. That's why I shuddered when I thought of
> > every single static IP address at every ISP being SWIP'd. It would increase
> > ARIN's database exponentially and is not necessary.

And don't forget that you have to come up with a unique network name
for the SWIP'd IP, every time you change the assignment.

> The answer, of course, is rwhois since that lets you go to whatever level
> of detail you want, and use your own resources to do so.  However, using
> rwhois is easy to talk about but...

Agreed.  I think one thing that slows acceptance of rwhois is the lack
of client tools used to query the databases.  Most [all?] of the rwhois
clients don't support referral information, so getting complete information
on a query is difficult.

> When you have to justify all your allocations, it is convenient if you can
> have all the allocations SWIPed and not have to worry about different
> recording and procedures for different sized blocks.  You can get over
> that hurdle though, and once you are it isn't that difficult to deal with.

I found using rwhois was a lot easier to use than SWIP. I should admit
though that my experience predates the online forms.  I also found that
keeping the information up to date with rwhois is very easy [we just
change our database, re-export to the rwhois server, and we're done]
and we don't have to wait for the SWIP submittal turnaround time.

Dan


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Dan Watts
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