OK - before someone end up donating addresses and gets involved in a fraud - I think it's time for a little backgrounder on Christopher Mettin.<br><br><a href="http://bit.ly/87Yjir">http://bit.ly/87Yjir</a><br><br>What Chris needs are a few blocks of /24 to setup a root system based on what I know of him. Thats what I think he is going on about - that they need fixed IP. About the only protocol widely used still requiring fixed IP for the root cache.<br>
<br>Be careful I have been unable to confirm what he is doing is even authorized by the school. If you feel so inclined to provide /24 blocks to them - make sure a responsible adult from the school signs on the dotted line, takes responsibility and absolves you of any legal liability.<br>
<br>I do however support his initial point. These are only numbers and ARIN RIPE APNIC et. al. are making a killing for just providing a database function - the rest as far as I can see is mainly hype and make work projects. I think thats been mentioned before.<br>
<br>cheers<br>joe baptista<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Christopher Mettin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cmettin@gqbc-online.com">cmettin@gqbc-online.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">We just need maybe 2 or 3 blocks containing up to 255 hosts (of IP v4<br>
addresses).<br>
<br>
We have partner schools in several US states. We plan to create a program<br>
allowing us to share classroom resources and to communicate directly.<br>
Unfortunately, our ISPs assign us dynamic IP addresses only and thus they<br>
change every 24 hours. Static IP addresses allow us to allow a connection<br>
establishment without allowing people other than our students to join. But<br>
having dynamic IP addresses only, we are forced to allow access by the<br>
entire ISP subnet which could mean a potential harm to our network.<br>
<br>
Can anyone provide us with a bunch of addresses?<br>
We would be very grateful. But such a chance should available to anyone else<br>
of the named parties as well.<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
<br>
Sincerely yours,<br>
Christopher Mettin<br>
Gymnasium Querfurt High School<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Christopher Mettin [mailto:<a href="mailto:cmettin@gqbc-online.com">cmettin@gqbc-online.com</a>]<br>
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 2:27 PM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:arin-ppml@arin.net">arin-ppml@arin.net</a><br>
Subject: [arin-ppml] Policy Change Request: IP Address Assignment to<br>
Educational and Non-Commercial Organizations<br>
<br>
To the American Regional IP Network Community,<br>
<br>
Don't you think that current ARIN fees exceeds the true value of IP<br>
addresses? Actually, they are just numbers, and ARIN is in charge by IANA to<br>
assign these IP's to people in all North America. For commercial companies<br>
with revenues of several Million Dollars a year these IP address blocks ARIN<br>
assigns are affordable. But smaller non-commercial organizations and even<br>
schools cannot pay for them.<br>
<br>
Especially for high schools, colleges, and smaller universities such prices<br>
can mean a harm to their classroom project, thus they mean a harm to<br>
education.<br>
<br>
ARIN should change their policies to waive the fees for educational<br>
institutions and non-commercial organizations.<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
<br>
Sincerely yours,<br>
Christopher Mettin<br>
Gymnasium Querfurt High School<br>
<br>
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