past vs future use

[Jeff Williams]

Jon,

  No disagreement here.  >;)

Jon Lewis wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Gordon Cook wrote:
> 
> > Sigh!  relevant points.
> >
> > evidently allocation and assignment of ip numbers are different.
> > evidently sect 3.1 is not intended to apply to isps.
> >
> > now that I have begun to look a little more closely at this stuff, it is
> > NOT at all as clear as I would have hoped.
> 
> It appears I'd skimmed over 3.0 too fast and should have been looking at
> 2.x instead.  Why are ISP's treated as second class citizens in RFC 2050?
> An end user enterprise can qualify for a /19 if they will use 1/4 of it
> immediately, and 50% in the next year or so.  According to guideline 4 for
> ISP's, it looks as if an ISP must prove they will fully use an allocation
> in 3 months, and 2.2 suggests that they must swip at least 80% of the
> first allocation to be considered for further ones.  Should I submit
> swip's for the blocks I use for virtual servers and dynamic dialup IP's?
> 
> > I hope that we will begin to have a discussion of some of these issues
> > over the next few days.  what's the address of pagn kim?  I am very
> > interested in your and the arin board and jon postels views on a range of
> > procedural issues.
> 
> Same here.  Also, when will the ARIN issues (like fees and membership) be
> ironed out now that ARIN has been "approved".  I still think it's
> ridiculous to not give a membership (at no extra cost) to any entity that
> has paid for an allocation.
> 
> i.e. After FDT pays for an allocation, assuming we can qualify, I think
> FDT should be an ARIN member (at no additional charge) for as long as it
> uses ARIN assigned space.  Does anyone disagree with this?  If so, I'd
> like to know why.
> 
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