/24 assignments to multi-homed customers who can't justify the use of >126 hosts in 3-6 months

[Clay]

The problem with this is that ARIN specifically says that routing is not
justification for IP address space.  If someone doesn't justify a /24 for
actual usage...they don't get it. or, if you do give it to them, you place
in jeopardy your future allocations.

Clay Lambert
Exodus Communications


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net]On Behalf Of
jforeman at bbo.com
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:35 AM
To: ppml at arin.net
Subject: /24 assignments to multi-homed customers who can't justify the use
of >126 hosts in 3-6 months


All,
For a customer of an ISP that meets the following criteria:
1) has registered an ASN and will be multi-homed to two or more ISPs,
2) cannot reasonably justify the use of a /24 within 3 - 6 months based on
ARIN IP allocation policies and
3) the customer is obtaining IP space from one of their ISPs.
In my view, such a customer will require at least a /24 so that their
network advertisement will be accepted by all ISPs since most ISPs will not
accept advertisements  from their peers of networks have a netmask any
longer than a /24.
Is it acceptable, in ARIN's view, to assign a /24 to such a customer? I
never came across any documentation at www.arin.net that discusses such a
situation.
Thanks,
Jon Foreman
BBO - Data Install
jforeman at bbo.com
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