[arin-discuss] [ppml] Counsel statement on Legacyassignments?(fwd)

On Oct 5, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:

>       On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, David Picard wrote:
>> Same thing for me...
>> Large cables operators in Quebec have a lot of Class B and they  
>> offer as may
>> ip as customers wants...
>> I cannot do this...
>
> I suspect this is a misimpression, if an understandable one...  If the
> cable operators are large, they certainly have more customers than  
> would
> be accommodated by a couple of actual legacy Class B networks.   
> That means
> that they're coming back to ARIN periodically to get more space.  If
> they're coming back for more space, they have to justify their current
> sub-allocations just as you do, and so they're operating under  
> exactly the
> rules you do.  How many addresses a customer _wants_ is irrelevant.  
> Both
> you and the cable operator have the same capacity to give them as  
> many as
> they _need_.
>
>

True, but when the do the re-allocation and re-examine everything do  
they then say, "hey, you should be paying for this other space now"?


Regards,
Jeremy Anthony Kinsey
  e-mail: jer at mia.net
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