ARIN Proposal

[Karl Denninger]

>
> > 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.

It depends what and who is on those blocks.  If you have a network which has
a boatload of space on it (all hard-coded into their machines -- say, Unix
servers and such) they're *screwed* trying to do this.

Yes, they can.  But the point is, they shouldn't *HAVE TO* if you change a
vendor relationship.

The fact is that it serves to tie customers to vendors in the *indirect*
case, and that is a problem.

I believe that any ISP should get their own /19 at the outset.  Among other
things, if you EVER multi-home you NEED IT if you want the multihoming to do
you ANY good.

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