past vs future use

[Kim Hubbard]

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> At 04:30 PM 6/28/97 -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
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> >Can an ISP justify allocations via swip by assigning 300% more space than
> >initially needed to all of its end users? 
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> I'm not sure about 300%, but 800-1600% seems to work (i.e., those ISPs
> using static ip assignment for dialup customers) `[8-((

> I don't have information on the ratio of IPs to customers for, e.g., @HOME,
> but 24.0.0.0 seems to contain a lot of cable television firms with large
> CIDR blocks.
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> I presume prior efficient utilization of a /19 could be documented with a
> Freedom of Information Act request along with protective orders for any
> confidential information.

Everything that is not confidential is already available in WHOIS via
the SWIPped information, I would assume that most ISPs would consider
the rest of their documented data to be confidential.

Kim Hubbard
InterNIC Registry

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