[ppml] Definition of "Existing Known ISP"

Kevin Loch kloch at kl.net
Thu May 3 18:34:01 EDT 2007


Leo Bicknell wrote:

> I'm curious about the public benefit portion of your statement.  I
> suspect a number of very small ISP's, providing only dynamicly
> assigned services, or running ASP type services would much prefer
> to be treated by ARIN as end users.  For small users, 25% initial
> utilization is much larger than a 6 month supply, and in many
> situation is cheaper as well.  Since the customers are dynamic
> and/or they are running server based infrastructure there's no real
> benefit to SWIP records, since they are doing to be the point of
> contact anyway.
> 
> Where do you see there's benefit, in particular public?

I was thinking in terms of publishing reassignment information.
Of course for those only assigning > /29 and/or not needing
to ever come back for more addresses that isn't a factor.

- Kevin



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