Re: ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?

[Kim Hubbard <kimh () arin net>]

> Jeremiah Kristal wrote:
> > ARIN has made a slight change to make it easier for small ISPs to get
> > provider independant netblocks.  They will assign a /20 and reserve the
> > adjacent /20, the customer is allowed to announce the entire /19.
> > For further information, please view http://www.arin.net/initial-isp.html
>
> Now, let's `cat post | bullshitfilter.pl` and see what we get:
>
> ARIN has made a slight change to make it easier for them to make more
> money by allowing anyone to register for IPs.  They will assign a /20 and
> reserve the adjacent /20...
>
> $
>
> Ahh, that makes more sense now.

ARIN just can't win with some people :-)  If we don't change policy, we're
evil....if we do, we're greedy.  *sigh*

Kim

> -jamie the cynic :)
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