Reject the NAIPR

[Jeremiah Kristal]

On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Stephen Satchell wrote:

> At 4:50 PM 1/18/97, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> >   In order for the Internet to scale using existing technologies, use
> >   of regional registry services should be limited to the assignment of
> >   IP addresses for organizations meeting one or more of the following
> >   conditions:
> >
> >      a)  the organization has no intention of connecting to
> >          the Internet-either now or in the future-but it still
> >          requires a globally unique IP address.  The organization
> >          should consider using reserved addresses from RFC1918.
> >          If it is determined this is not possible, they can be
> >          issued unique (if not Internet routable) IP addresses.
> >
> >      b)  the organization is multi-homed with no favored connection.
> >
> >      c)  the organization's actual requirement for IP space is
> >          very large, for example, the network prefix required to
> >          cover the request is of length /18 or shorter.
> >
> >   All other requestors should contact its ISP for address space or
> >   utilize the addresses reserved for non-connected networks described
> >   in RFC1918 until an Internet connection is established.  Note that
> >   addresses issued directly from the IRs,(non-provider based), are the
> >   least likely to be routable across the Internet.
>
> I suggest there is another rationale:
>
>      d)  The organization desires links to different backbone providers
> (either directly or via ISPs) in order to bridge local outages on any given
> specific backbone provider.  This would be particularly true for those
> organizations with mission-critical use of the Internet and wanting to
> bridge any failure, including failure of any given backbone.
>
> ---
Actually, rationale d) is a slightly more verbose version of rationale b).
I think this illustrates the need for an expanded ARIN website, with
pointers to rfc1519, rfc1918, some general definitions, and a list of
books for further reading.  Mr. Satchell is one of the most highly
regarded modem gurus out there, and he is still fairly confused by parts
of this.  Maybe some of the more active participants on this list would
volunteer to write up some of the descriptions?  Hell, I'll volunteer if
we can get a general consensus about the content.

Jeremiah

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