[arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4 accountability.

John Brown john at citylinkfiber.com
Tue Jul 21 22:45:26 EDT 2009


BTDT.  Didn¹t work well.

ARIN is in a specific legal brier-patch.  They can¹t tell you what to do
with your routing table, or anyone elses.  That could trigger anti-trust
issues.


On 7/21/09 8:43 PM, "Kelvin Williams" <kwilliams at altuscgi.com> wrote:

> Net-Neutrality is something I fully support. The previous example was just
> saying, if ARIN can't help us little guys, we can band together and help
> ourselves. 
> 
> Kelvin WilliamsAltus Communications Group, Inc.Office Direct:
> 678.369.5968Office Main: 678.369.5970Fax: 866.895.8557Mobile: 678.852.4173Sent
> from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed
> 
> 
> From:  John Brown
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:39:24 -0600
> To: <kwilliams at altuscgi.com>; Chris Gotstein<chris at uplogon.com>
> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4 accountability.
> Hang on, I need to scream NET-NEUTRALITY.
> 
>  Ah, but market forces will keep you from adding those ACL¹s.  Your customers
> will find another provider that is ACL free and then you will be revenue free.
> :)
> 
> 
>  On 7/21/09 8:30 PM, "Kelvin Williams" <kwilliams at altuscgi.com> wrote:
> 
>> ARIN may not have the legal right to do anything. But, if they (Apple, et al)
>> don't want to play fair with the rest of us, they don't have a legal right
>> when we add ACLs blocking their traffic from traversing our networks. ;)Kw
>> 
>>  Kelvin WilliamsAltus Communications Group, Inc.Office Direct:
>> 678.369.5968Office Main: 678.369.5970Fax: 866.895.8557Mobile:
>> 678.852.4173Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed
>> 
>> 
>> From:  John Brown
>> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:26:02 -0600
>> To: Chris Gotstein<chris at uplogon.com>; <kwilliams at altuscgi.com>
>> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4 accountability.
>>  I¹ll ask the age old question again.
>> 
>>   What legal right does ARIN have to tell Apple to do anything?  If Apple got
>> the space pre-ARIN and the rules where different then, what gives ARIN the
>> ability to  enforce rules today.
>> 
>>   Its contracts law.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   On 7/21/09 8:14 PM, "Chris Gotstein" <chris at uplogon.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I would agree.  Us small guys don't want to get to a point where the big
>>>   guys are holding available IP address space over our heads for a fee.
>>>   Those companies aren't just going to start dealing with every small ISP
>>>   that comes along asking for address space.
>>> 
>>>   We've gone through the process of getting our initial IP space and also
>>>   requesting additional IP space.  We were successful on both attempts
>>>   because we could prove we needed the space.  We also have an IPv6 block
>>>   and already have it implemented on our routers.  But at this time, the
>>>   only way you can run IPv6 is dual stack, i don't see us running pure
>>>   IPv6 for a long time to come.
>>> 
>>>   ARIN needs to step in and start dealing with these large, mostly unused
>>>   blocks of IP address space.  A working group would be a good start, or
>>>   maybe it's just a matter of asking for justification from each of these
>>>   companies.  ARIN has the right to poll current block holders of address
>>>   space on justification, why can't they do the same on these large
>>>   blocks?  If HP and Apple can show they are using 80% or more of their
>>>   block, then they can keep it and we move on.  If not, then they should
>>>   break up their blocks, and return the un-used space to ARIN.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   --
>>>   Chris Gotstein
>>>   Sr Network Engineer
>>>   UP Logon/Computer Connection UP
>>>   500 N Stephenson Ave
>>>   Iron Mountain, MI 49801
>>>   Phone: 906-774-4847
>>>   Fax: 906-774-0335
>>>   chris at uplogon.com
>>> 
>>>   Kelvin Williams wrote:
>>>>   > Whoa, whoa, whoa.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > I'm sure I represent several others facing the depletion of IPv4. Our
>>>> Broadband division services residential and SMB DOCSIS and DSL subscribers.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > In a perfect world we would be servicing savvy subscribers running
>>>> Linux or current versions of Windows that support IPv6, and the majority of
>>>> web destinations were running IPv6.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > I can't implement NAT for our subscribers given that NAT can cause
>>>> problems for some of the services (VoIP, VPNs, etc) in use today.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > So, if I'm reading this right, folks like me who are protecting what
>>>> blocks we manage from excess waste and paying for every block, will now be
>>>> at the mercy of these /8 holders who may be utilizing a tiny portion of the
>>>> blocks they are assigned when the "transfer market" comes into play.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Lovely, I can't wait until I'm paying $100 a year per IPv4 address
>>>> because they can go for that.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > I think instead of talking on these lists that there should be a
>>>> steering group developed to address the real issues. Forcing Apple, HP and
>>>> the DoD to implement IPv6 NOW freeing up those blocks. If they can't, they
>>>> need to pay. In my opinion, especially when looking at the DoD most of
>>>> their networks aren't accessed by the general public, so they can
>>>> transition versus the ISPs of the world dealing with users still running
>>>> Windows 98.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Additionally the group could reallocate those big blocks to the
>>>> responsible little guy with the aforementioned issues without the
>>>> establishment of a transfer market, and work to create a series of large
>>>> bandwidth IPv4 to IPv6 gateways.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > (All of the above was written after too many beers at the local brew
>>>> pub--if it doesn't make sense to you, it made sense to us)
>>>>   >
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Kw
>>>>   >
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Kelvin Williams
>>>>   > Altus Communications Group, Inc.
>>>>   > Office Direct: 678.369.5968
>>>>   > Office Main: 678.369.5970
>>>>   > Fax: 866.895.8557
>>>>   > Mobile: 678.852.4173
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed
>>>>   >
>>>>   >
>>>>   >
>>>>   > -----Original Message-----
>>>>   > From: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at ipinc.net>
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:58:01
>>>>   > To: John Brown<john at citylinkfiber.com>
>>>>   > Cc: ARIN Discussion List<arin-discuss at arin.net>
>>>>   > Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4 accountability.
>>>>   >
>>>>   >
>>>>   >
>>>>   >
>>>>   > If people NEED IPv4 after runout (as opposed to merely liking to have
>>>>   > some), then a transfer market will
>>>>   > exist, and those unused IPv4 numbers of HP and Apple will suddenly
>>>>   > have a transferable value - and as long as HP and Apple continue to sit
>>>>   > on them, they lose that money.  It's no different than charging them
>>>>   > a fee to where they then lose money paying the fee.  Either way,
>>>>   > they lose money.  The only difference is who gets the money they lose.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Apple and HP only DON'T lose money if a transfer market never forms
>>>>   > and that block of numbers never gains value.  In which case nobody will
>>>>   > be bugging ARIN to start charging them a fee.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Either way, it works the same.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Ted
>>>>   >
>>>>   > John Brown wrote:
>>>>>   >> So the challenge for ARIN, is what legal right do they have to assess
a
>>>>>   >> fee on Apple or HP (to use them as an example here)??
>>>>>   >>
>>>>>   >> When Apple or HP got their space in the late 1980's there was no fee
as
>>>>>   >> part of the "contract".
>>>>>   >>
>>>>>   >> 
>>>>>   >>
>>>>>>   >>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>   >>> From: Steve Wagner [mailto:stwagner at syringanetworks.net]
>>>>>>   >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:38 PM
>>>>>>   >>> To: John Brown; Mike Horwath; Nathaniel B. Lyon
>>>>>>   >>> Cc: ARIN Discussion List
>>>>>>   >>> Subject: RE: [arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4 accountability.
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> If either Apple or HP  corporate network sits behind a NAT
>>>>>>   >>> firewall, they do not need the address space you speak about,
>>>>>>   >>> i.e. 40 million. In this regard may charging those type of
>>>>>>   >>> entities for the address space they use, may result in them
>>>>>>   >>> returning this address space to the allocation pool. This
>>>>>>   >>> would be true for any other end user entity as well that uses
>>>>>>   >>> a NAT type firewall
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> Regards,
>>>>>>   >>> Steve Wagner
>>>>>>   >>> Vice President of Operations
>>>>>>   >>> Syringa Networks, LLC
>>>>>>   >>> 3795 S Development Ave, Suite 100
>>>>>>   >>> Boise, ID 83705
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>>>>>>   >>> Email: Stwagner at syringanetworks.net
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>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>>
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>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>   >>> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net
>>>>>>   >>> [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of John Brown
>>>>>>   >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:18 PM
>>>>>>   >>> To: Mike Horwath; Nathaniel B. Lyon
>>>>>>   >>> Cc: ARIN Discussion List
>>>>>>   >>> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4 accountability.
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> I think that the other ARIN RIR's do a better job of managing
>>>>>>   >>> the actual
>>>>>>   >>> usage ratios.  Lots of US service providers have space allocated or
>>>>>>   >>> assigned to downstream customers and those customers don't exist
any
>>>>>>   >>> more.
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> The cost for provider X to tightly manage their space is
>>>>>>   >>> higher than the
>>>>>>   >>> cost of them just getting new space.  So it doesn't happen.  I
could
>>>>>>   >>> give multiple specific examples, at the risk of putting a public
spot
>>>>>>   >>> light on those providers. :|
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> I believe that the early end user entities that got gobs of
>>>>>>   >>> space should
>>>>>>   >>> return the space they aren't using.
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> Does Apple Computer really need a /8 ???
>>>>>>   >>> Does HP really need a /8 ??
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> Do both of those entities really need 40 million+ IP addresses ??
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> For the specific issue of why Mr. Horwath can't get space, I
>>>>>>   >>> don't know.
>>>>>>   >>> He fails to articulate specifics and only talks with a broad brush.
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> I do know the ARIN staff and they are reasonable people doing
>>>>>>   >>> good work
>>>>>>   >>> under the guidelines they have.
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> If there is some injustice on Mr. Horwath's allocation
>>>>>>   >>> request, I'm sure
>>>>>>   >>> it can be resolved.
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>   >>> So to that end I'll offer a few minutes of my time to privately
work
>>>>>>   >>> with him on his allocation request and see if it passes
>>>>>>   >>> muster and what
>>>>>>   >>> may need to be done to help it float.
>>>>>>   >>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>   >>>> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net
>>>>>>>   >>>> [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Mike Horwath
>>>>>>>   >>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:48 PM
>>>>>>>   >>>> To: Nathaniel B. Lyon
>>>>>>>   >>>> Cc: ARIN Discussion List
>>>>>>>   >>>> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4
>>>>>>> accountability.
>>>>>>>   >>>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> Hi.
>>>>>>>   >>>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> This issue and scare of IPv4 going away, running out of
>>>>>>>   >>>> space, I hear rice cakes are tasty - has been going on for
>>>>>>>   >>>> way too long.
>>>>>>>   >>>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> I started my first ISP in 1993 and was told then that I
>>>>>>>   >>>> needed to be stingy with my allocation.  16 years later, same
>>>>>>>   >>>> mantra, same boys with their toys who don't want to share the
pool.
>>>>>>>   >>>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> The issues of accountability go back to the mid/late-1990s
>>>>>>>   >>>> when it was posed that companies/institutions/government be
>>>>>>>   >>>> held to the same standards as joe schmoe consumer of
>>>>>>>   >>>> netblocks.  Search the mailing list archives, I am sure you
>>>>>>>   >>>> will find commentary in regular spats.
>>>>>>>   >>>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> This isn't going to change, unfortunately.
>>>>>>>   >>>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> The old boys club is just that: a club of old boys who have
>>>>>>>   >>>> benefits for themselves.  They even have a sign on their
>>>>>>>   >>>> clubhouse that states 'No Girlz'.  (the rest of us are the
>>>>>>>   >>>> girlz if that wasn't obvious)
>>>>>>>   >>>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> BUT: you too can join the club: just rewind time by about 20
>>>>>>>   >>>> years, get in on the ground floor 'IP Address Give Away'
>>>>>>>   >>>> stock offering.
>>>>>>>   >>>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> Or do what others do, buy larger netblock holding companies:
PROFIT
>>>>>>>   >>>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> If I sound a little bitter, I apologize.  The playing field
>>>>>>>   >>>> should be level when it comes to this resource.  It never has
>>>>>>>   >>>> been.  I don't think it ever will be.
>>>>>>>   >>>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> I said it, you read it, I can't take it back.
>>>>>>>   >>>>
>>>>>>>   >>>> --
>>>>>>>   >>>> Mike Horwath      ipHouse - Welcome home!
>>>>>>> drechsau at iphouse.net
>>>>>>>   >>>>         The universe is an island, surrounded by whatever it is
>>>>>>>   >>>>         that surrounds universes. - Berkely Fortune
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