ARIN Proposal

[Michael Shields]

> You WILL lose a BOATLOAD of YOUR customers if you get boxed like this.  The
> only option you have left as an ISP is to sue the people who are putting
> you in the box.

Well, I've renumbered out of a /19 equivalent (two /21s and one /20),
which were my old Net99 blocks.  (Remember that if you can get PI
space at /19 then we only need to worry about the pain of renumbering
/20s and smaller networks.)  It wasn't as bad as I thought.

It's a scheduling hassle more than anything else -- most people
didn't have a problem with renumbering, but rather with when they
would have to renumber.  They wanted to renumber on Tuesday and then
changed their minds, or they wanted to renumber three months from now,
and so on.  It wasn't catastrophic, just a burden.  A lawsuit would
have been *much* more trouble.

And although analogies are fairly useless I've also had to change my
area code and my zip code, both with and without moving.  (The USPS
renumbered a bunch of Northern Virginia zip codes last year.)
--
Shields, CrossLink.