Address block problem

[Richard Jimmerson]

Hello Bruce,

> It was my understanding that 216.82.160.0/19 was reserved 
> for our future expansion past the end of 216.82.128.0/19.  
> I find that this block has been assigned to someone else.  
> Why was this allowed to happen without any notification?

ARIN does not guarantee the reservation of IP address space.

There are times ARIN does hold a reservation for an
organization who has been approved for IP address space,
but that is an internal practice and is not guaranteed
to the requesting organization.

If ARIN finds a reservation has been held for more than
one year, and in this case almost two, the reservation
is removed for assignment elsewhere.

Regards,

Richard Jimmerson
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-arin-discuss at arin.net 
>[mailto:owner-arin-discuss at arin.net]On
>Behalf Of Bruce Robertson
>Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 2:31 PM
>To: hostmaster at arin.net
>Cc: arin-discuss at arin.net
>Subject: Address block problem
>
>
>It was my understanding that 216.82.160.0/19 was reserved for 
>our future
>expansion past the end of 216.82.128.0/19.  I find that this block has
>been assigned to someone else.  Why was this allowed to happen without
>any notification?
>
>Once again I find that I am penalized for being frugal with IP 
>addresses.  All
>of the ARIN policies are such that people who waste IP addresses are
>rewarded for that behavior, and people who manage to slow their address
>consumption to almost zero are penalized.  On top of that, 
>this action just
>added to fragmentation, since when I need another /19, it will 
>now no longer
>be contiguous with an existing block.
>
>--
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