[arin-ppml] Change of Use and ARIN (was: Re: AFRINIC And The Stability Of The Internet Number Registry System)

[Mark Andrews]

I got my first 4 blocks (1 class B, and 3 class C blocks (pre-CIDR) in 4 different sites in 4 cities in 4 states) of addresses in ’88 (I know the year because my NIC handle was MA88 and I had noted that both where 88, a coincidence but just the same memorable). Even then there where formal procedures. The organisation was noted in whois.  You where expected to keep those records up to date. Yes, I know Jon did allocate some addresses less formally but most of the pre-ARIN allocations where formally recorded.

Mark

> On 16 Sep 2021, at 03:59, Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> It was interesting reading about your problem, your take on matters, the experience and history with ARIN. Thank you for that.
> 
> While I can appreciate ARIN's position from the perspective of 'how do they know', I can appreciate yours too. We're not talking about criminal courts and beyond reasonable doubts. Jon Postel's pre RIR legacy assignments are hand written in a notebook. If that's good enough documentation to establish legacy assignment then providing "reasonable" proof that an address was provided for legitimate use would make a lot of sense to me. However, and admittedly, it's not that simple. Mostly because we don't want it to be. To some extent, because it can't be. You are a victim of "progress".
> 
> Warm regards, and good luck;
> 
> -M<
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 1:05 PM Paul E McNary via ARIN-PPML <arin-ppml at arin.net> wrote:
> I need to make a slight correction.
> I am semi retired from our Internet company and my son runs the show.
> He is a triple major Engineer and is PE certifiable in each of the 3 areas.
> He says he has deployed IPv6 to subscribers.
> But Simple and Cheap NO.
> 5 years and a complete forklift to all subscribers.
> The issues happens at the head end router.
> My son is an University educated Enginner.
> His under graduate work was in Network Engineering.
> He was offered a bypass of Master's Degree and go straight into PHD Network Engineering
> Graduated Summa Cum Laude, so he's not an Idiot
> Well maybe he is. He choose our WISP over the PHD.
> He says IPv6 does work for the last mile but on our redundant backhaul loops it has some shortcomings.
> And our multi-homing has some issues with IPv6.
> 
> Thought I would make these corrections.
> Just an old, fat, grumpy guy and former Guru that has outlived his usefulness
> Paul McNary
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "arin-ppml" <arin-ppml at arin.net>
> To: scott at solarnetone.org
> Cc: "arin-ppml" <arin-ppml at arin.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 11:44:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Change of Use and ARIN (was: Re: AFRINIC And The Stability Of The Internet Number Registry System)
> 
> > On Sep 14, 2021, at 22:50 , scott at solarnetone.org wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On Sep 14, 2021, at 22:42 , scott at solarnetone.org wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Nobody I know has found a way to do lossless packing of 128 bits into a 32 bit field yet. Until you can achieve that, compatibility is rather limited.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Please present your solution here.
> >>> 
> >>> Encode it in four sequential packets, 32 bits per, and add logic to parse those malformed addresses in the routing daemons.
> >> 
> >> Either I’m missing something, or that’s not going to be functional when those 4 packets reach the IPv4-Only end host and it has to reply.
> > 
> > Maybe, but that is not the challenge you presented:)
> 
> Fair enough… In context, the challenge I presented was about getting an IPv4-only host with no changes to software to be able to engage
> in bidirectional communication with remote hosts that live in a 128 bit address space. Yes, you are correct the the way I abbreviated my
> expression of that particular challenge was not complete in itself without the additional context.
> 
> > Seriously, some manner of stateful 6/4 nat or header mangling is going to be required upstream of the legacy device to translate.
> 
> Yeah, but because of the way IPv4 has been implemented (protocols that embed addresses, expectations of dealing with rendezvous
> hosts, NAT traversal assumptions, etc.), it turns out that evenstateful 6/4 NAT is unnecessarily hard and unreliable at best.
> 
> Owen
> 
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