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Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett () netconsonance com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:51:11 -0700
On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:58 PM, David Hubbard wrote:
Raising the price won't help; there's already a huge amount of wasted address space by web hosts selling IP addresses to customers who need them solely for 'seo purposes' rather
It's a common request we see. We refuse it, and point them to the Google documentation that shows that unique IPs don't help or hurt their SEO standings.
reasons and even then they don't believe me. If ARIN would enforce a technically justified use of IPv4 space that does not recognize "seo" as a valid reason, that would definitely help
I point to the wording where it says that we need to collect the technical justification for the additional IP addresses. Since virtual web hosting has no technical justification for IP space, I refuse it.
And since the policy allows it currently, the CEO signing off on it will also be valid.
Depends on how you read the policy. I prefer my reading to yours ;-)That said, if someone who likes writing these things will help me, I'll gladly create and advance a policy demanding a real, provable need for an IP beyond one per physical host.
-- Jo RhettNet Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness
Current thread:
- Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"], (continued)
- Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"] Nathan Ward (Apr 22)
- Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"] Joel Jaeggli (Apr 22)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"] Chris Grundemann (Apr 23)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"] Matthew Kaufman (Apr 23)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests David Conrad (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Roger Marquis (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Justin M. Streiner (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Jo Rhett (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Chris Adams (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Ken A (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Jo Rhett (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Matthew Palmer (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Jo Rhett (Apr 23)