past vs future use

Gordon,

In my opinion it seems self-evident that an ISP's ability to manage 
an IP allocation wisely, regardless of where it came from, is a valid 
indicator of how well they would manage a future InterNIC allocation.


> Someone has complained to me that they were turned down by internic for a
> prefix 19/ allocation because they could not show effective PAST use of
> their allocations. They maintained that RFC 2050 only demands assurance of
> FUTURE effective use.... Not past.
> 
> I have done some looking at 2050 to ascertain, if I can, what the
> disagreement is about. When someone comes to internic asking for a
> direction address asignment. How can they demonstrate effective past use
> if the have never gotten address space from internic before or is the
> criteria meant to be their PAST use of space from their upstream provider?