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

[Bill Woodcock]

      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_.

                                -Bill