Re: ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () inorganic5 fdt net>]

On Sat, 16 May 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:

> Why do you need to renumber out of previous space if MCI doesn't have to
> when they get a bigger block handed to them?

Well...because I knew from day 1 that our UUNet space was non-portable,
and that we were effectively borrowing it.

> Why should your *customers* bear the burden of this policy?

This was the part that sucked.  Renumbering was a bitch, but with proper
planning, it really wasn't too big a deal...just lots of work.
Renumbering is one of those tasks during which you really find out which
of your customers have clues and which are a few clues short of a full
deck.

> My point: you shouldn't, and your customer's shouldn't.  You should, as a
> multi-homed ISP, be able to get a /19 immediately and without obstruction -
> period.

We didn't start out multihomed.  We were singlehomed for 3 years.  Are you
saying we should have been able to keep our UUNet IP space (even though we
left UUNet)?

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