[ppml] Suggestion for ARIN to deligate smaller IP blocks

[Jo Rhett]

John, I'm a little confused by your math.

2000 customers * cost of changing IP addresses equals... $200 per  
customer if they have to pay an outside consultant to do it for them,  
usually less than $20 for inside help... Not a big number.
$40,000 <=> $400,000

Cost of upgrading a single big iron box to have more routing table  
slots > $100,000
Multiply by the number of big iron boxes who can't use a default  
route, say at least 400?

The only difference is who is paying for it, and who is gaining value  
for it.  You want us to pay, so that your business can gain value.

You do the math, and tell me again why I should be paying out of my  
pocket for your customer.  You very well could have explicit  
instructions sent to the customers for IP address changes.  You could  
very well purchase multiple IP ranges from different providers, and  
thus make the importance of any IP address change negliable.  Or you  
could pay $49/month to get a second uplink and then qualify for PI  
space based on multi-homing.

Every one of those options is trivially cheap and easy to implement.   
This is why I reject your desire to make our businesses pay hard cash  
so that your business can avoid building even the most trivial  
resiliance into your process.

On May 31, 2007, at 4:39 PM, John Santos wrote:
> It is the 2000 customers who would have to pay the cost.  It may be
> small for each, but its cumulative, and will certainly generating lots
> of support calls back to Leroy's company.
>
> My company is in a similar situation to Leroy's customers.  We have an
> external mail filtering service.  Our published MX records point to
> the service, and they then forward the (filtered for spam, viruses,
> RBL, etc.) mail to us, so we have had to open up our firewall to SMTP
> from their specific IP addresses.  We are certainly *not* going to let
> them manage our firewalls for us, nor are we going to willy-nilly  
> change
> our firewall rules on their request without minimally verifying the
> origin of the request (a support call to them.)  Multiply by several
> thousand customers.
>
> If they were to start changing IP addresses frequently, we would start
> looking for a new service provider.
>
> This is an *extremely* unlevel playing field, since ACME GIANT ASP,
> INC. (which is many times the size of Leroy's company), could easily
> justify an allocation, and thus could promise their customers that
> their IP addresses and firewall rule would never change.

-- 
Jo Rhett
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