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Re: ARIN?


From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol () nacs net>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:37:30 -0500

On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 07:01:13PM -0500, Kim Hubbard wrote:

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.

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.

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