Global council of registries???

[Justin W. Newton]

At 08:42 PM 4/28/97 -0400, Rudolph J. Geist wrote:
>Just ask any small or mid-sized company that has requested address space 
>in the past 9 months, no matter how much money is behind the company, or 
>what kind of business plans they have.  They all get the same runaround 
>from Internic.  Internic states that a company may only obtain address 
>space if it has a history of efficiently utilizing IPs.  But how the 
>heck can you have a history if you can't get any from Internic?  The 
>response to this question is not that these ISPS should get it from 
>their upstream provider - and be subject to later renumbering - or the 
>loss of the IPs during a merger or buy-out, or any other such case.


Rudolph,
	As a mid sized ISP, who is one of your members, I would like to inform you
of my support for the ARIN proposal.  I /AM/ speaking for Erol's, as I am
the person here who deals with IP allocation and requests.  ISP's do have
to eventually renumber if they decide to leave their upstream.  It happens,
plan for it.  What's the problem?  

Justin "I am renumbering a /16 worth of IPs sunday night" Newton

Justin Newton				
Network Architect					
Erol's Internet Services            http://www.erols.com
ISP/C Director at Large             http://www.ispc.org