RE: IP renumbering timeframe

[Ralph Doncaster <ralph () istop com>]

But it would seem that given the attitude many have expressed here of "if
they're not your customer any more, screw 'em.", then relying on the honor
system is unwise.

Ralph Doncaster
principal, IStop.com     
div. of Doncaster Consulting Inc.

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Daniel Golding wrote:

> Indeed, you have hit upon one of the significant weaknesses of the ARIN IP
> registry system - that it relies largely upon the integrity of it's members,
> in order to properly issue and conserve address space. ARIN is largely based
> upon the honor system, with one "check" on the potentially dishonest being a
> general unwilling to be branded an IP address cheat or poor internet
> citizen.
>
> Of course, should one choose to be somewhat less upstanding of an internet
> citizen, posting one's intentions to do so on NANOG, frequented as it is by
> various ARIN people, might not be such a good idea.
>
> - Daniel Golding
>
> > Ralph Doncaster angrily ruminated....
> >
> > What it tells me is I should have wasted enough space to consume 8 /24s
> > long ago, so I could get a /20 directly from ARIN.  I assign IPs to
> > customers very conservatively.  Multiple DSL customers with static IPs are
> > put on a shared subnet instead of one subnet per customer.  I easily could
> > have used 8 /24's a year ago and still conformed to ARIN rules.  At the
> > time I was only using 3 /24's.  We recently reached 8 /24s and applied to
> > ARIN a few weeks ago for a /20, but it sounds like the best thing to do is
> > to use IPs in the most inefficient way possible (while still conforming to
> > ARIN policy) in order to quickly qualify for PI space.
> >
> > -Ralph