Re: ARIN Difficulties

[Austin Schutz <tex () shrubbery net>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 12:18:16AM -0400, Gregory Urban wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Geoff Mohler wrote:
>
> > Who do you go to, when you've spent a year detailing everything ARIN wants
> > when you ask for address space, then they decide to flush an installed and
> > operating $2B business plan "just because".
>
> It's not about your budget, or your plans.  It's all about "What have you
> done, and how fast have you used the /19 your provider gave you."
>
> This is one of the few places in the world where millionares and bag
> ladies get treated equally (poorly).

        ARIN bases their policy upon input from their membership, or so
I am led to believe by their staff. They didn't just arbitrarily pick /19
(/20 currently) as being cutoff. In addition, they have no say in what makes
space routable. That is set semi-arbitrarily by your (or someone else's) NSP.
        As noted in an earlier post, there will be a public policy meeting
for ARIN in October. If you don't like current policy come express your
views.

        Austin