Policy 6 - Single organizations with multiple aggregation poi nts

David R Huberman huberman at gblx.net
Mon Nov 5 14:06:26 EST 2001


>     In the case of organizations not currently managing multiple maintainer
>     accounts *and* aggregating their address space, I still believe it is the
>     responsibility of the ARIN RSG to point the requestor to the new policy
>     and clearly explain their options. ARIN's mission is very much educational
>     - a basic part of that mission is relying on the RSG to educate requestors
>     about policies [especially new ones].
>
> Not sure what you mean by "aggregating their address space".  The
> distinct reason for this policy is that folks like Andrew can't
> aggregate their address space because they have multiple non
> contiguous networks.  If an ISP doesn't have multiple maintainers
> and has a contiguous network (and aggregating its address space)
> then I don't see how that organization fits into this policy.

My responses stem from my experiences as an analyst at ARIN. There were
other organizations, besides Internap, who also fit into this policy.
Many only managed one address pool from ARIN, but struggled under the
rules - hence my vocal support for this policy.

/david





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