Handle Generation

[Louis Lee]

Dave,

You should still be free to select your own netname for customer
reassignments.  The new handles will no longer be generated from the
netnames that we submit in our requests/SWIPs to ARIN.  Rather, they will be
generated from the IP address itself.

I presume that we should still be able to do lookups against both netnames
and handles.  But since netnames don't have to be unique anymore....

Louie 
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Louis Lee                             louie at equinix.com 
Staff Network Engineer             office: 650/316-6162 
Equinix, Inc.                         fax: 650/316-6903 
http://www.equinix.com/ 


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Barger [mailto:dbarger at swbell.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:21 AM
To: ginny listman; dbwg at arin.net
Subject: Re: Handle Generation


> To make the database more uniform and to completely disassociate handle 
> usage from network and AS names, we would also like to replace existing 
> handles with this new format. How many of you out there are attached to 
> the existing handles? Will changing existing handles be a benefit or a 
> hinderance?

Ginny,

When you say you want to replace existing handles (I assume netnames),
are you referring to netnames  associated only with our ISP allocations
from ARIN, or would you replace netnames for al of our customer
reassignments as well?

I'm in favor of replacing netnames for our allocations received from ARIN,
but
not a big fan of replacing netnames for our customer reassignments.  Through
our IP management tools, we are already generating netnames using the
4 octets of the network address, followed by a date format mmddyy.

Dave Barger
SBC Internet