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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I would like to thank those
that brought this matter forward and apologize for commenting so late on the
issue. I just found out about this proposal since it is buried in the ARIN
site. As someone that has helped companies establish multihomed networks,
I have seen the need for this for a long time. I reviewed the email listing to
see what issue this would raise and found that none of the objections were
really credible.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>There is little credible
engineering reason to deny allowing an organization to own a small public
block. I have not seen any research done that would suggest that doing
this would impact routing table size.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Business today really
requires that companies have solid Internet connectivity. Companies
understand that their email, informational and e-commerce sites need to be
available. Hosting is not the slam dunk decision anymore and many
companies are keeping or bringing back their internet apps on site using multihomed
networks. This is what is driving the table growth.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>While the provider that
gives a block to an organization can aggregate the announcement from its network,
that is not the case with the other provider(s) that the site is connected to.
Thus outside the connecting providers, the table has grown when the site goes
live. What is the difference if the block was sold by one provider or
ARIN?</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>As for the block size, the
only given reason this is an issue is in aggregation. Look at the number
of tupples being reported in the last meeting in </span></font><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Oregon</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>.
50,000+ in the /24 block. Where is the aggregation? Its not there because
the idea of aggregation appears to be a fallacy. There is no reason to keep an
artificially high block size other then keep money going to large companies
that can afford to buy large blocks for resale.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>In fact I would bet that
ARIN could pull back even more numbers if more providers would announce smaller
blocks then /24. Most organizations really need fewer then 64 public
addresses now since the rest of their networks use non routable address space
and reside behind firewalls. That means that 3/4 of the IP space those
50,000+ tupples have could possibly be reused if better support were
given. This wouldn't make the tables grow just migrate the tupples to
smaller blocks.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The arguments about links
are meaningless. If a provider is willing to provide BGP service, it’s
because someone is willing to pay for it and only for that reason no matter if
the link an OC-192 or a 56k dialup. It doesn't matter if the block came
from ARIN or one of the providers. The table still grows.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>From a business standpoint
it makes sense to own a public IP block especially at this point in time.
Yes, organizations are being hurt by ISPs that suddenly close their
doors. The hurt is more then just a renumbering. It is actual
dollars, pesos or whatever currency is used by that organization.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>There is software that is
VERY expensive that many times must be tied to a public IP address. The
companies providing this software make it expensive to re-license systems to
another IP or limit the number of times it can be done (I seen and heard of companies
hit more than 3 times in a six month period). Additionally it takes time
to do a renumber and if the need is sudden, business is lost while arrangements
are made to get space from the other provider, get new licenses, renumber
systems and wait for DNS caches to time out. Not allowing smaller block
sizes only helps the providers lock in a customer.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Why should ARIN care about
such matters? Because ARIN was created to serve the general public's need
for addressing not the business desires of a few companies that wish to
monopolize this limited commodity.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Thank you,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Steve Rolapp</span></font></p>
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