ARIN's policies concerning dial-up pools

[Daniel Golding]

Charles,

ARIN never gets involved in user to modem ratios. They get involved in Modem
to IP ratios, which is proper, and User to IP ratios, which is even more
important.

- Daniel Golding

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> From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net]On Behalf Of
> Charles Scott
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 3:09 PM
> To: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: ARIN's policies concerning dial-up pools
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>   No offence guys, but I think it amounts to intereference in the
> operations of the business if ARIN were to start saying how many modems
> can be deployed, what the user to modem radio should be or that a provider
> shouldn't assign static IP's for dial-in users.
>   I admit that allocating static IPs for all dial-in users is just plain
> wastefull and it should certainly be written into the policy that doing
> this for no good reason may cause problem with getting address space. (Of
> course here are good reasons for some static allocations.) I would thing
> however that getting into the game of determining what's a proper user to
> modem ratio is out of line. Also, it would seem that deploying additional
> modems in advance of demand (as unusual as that would seem to some
> providers) is a very prudent thing to do and should not be discouraged.
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> Chuck Scott
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