Re: 600 acres and a mule, was Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:00 AM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: And in complete fairness - why should folks who received vast tracts of addresses for little or no cost under a justified-need regime now have free reign to monetize their sale? All of the real estate in my part of New York

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Watching people snark on mailing lists is occasionally entertaining. Watching them snark on the wrong mailing lists is usually less entertaining. Watching them snark on the wrong mailing list for 100+ posts when the things they are snarking about were voted on by themselves is getting a

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 13, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Yet most of the bad ideas in the past 15 years have actually come from the IETF (TLA's, no end site multihoming, RA religion), some of which have actually been fixed by the RIR's. no, they were fixed within the ietf. that's my blood you are

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 13, 2010, at 9:12 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: John et al, I have read many of your articles about the need to migrate to IPv6 and how failure to do so will impact business continuity sometime in the next 1 - 3 years. I've pressed our vendors to support IPv6 (note: keep in mind we're a

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 13, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Franck Martin wrote: Funny! On one hand people talk about ARIN providing IP allocation at nearly zero cost and on the other hand talking that ARIN goes after companies that use their allocation for abuse (which has a non trivial cost and potential

Re: 600 acres and a mule, was Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread John R. Levine
Convincingly said here on an ISP mailing list. But what about the folks who were denied address assignments by ARIN policies over the last 15 years? Denied them based on the fiction that ISPs didn't own IP addresses, that they were merely holding the addresses in trust for the public they serve.

40 acres and a mule, was Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Jimi Thompson
It was 40 acres and a mule - FYI On 8/14/10 11:22 AM, John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Convincingly said here on an ISP mailing list. But what about the folks who were denied address assignments by ARIN policies over the last 15 years? Denied them based on the fiction that ISPs didn't

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Aug 14, 2010, at 8:05, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Aug 13, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Randy Bush wrote: The lack of end-site multihoming (more specifically the lack of PI for end-sites) was created by the IETF and resolved by the RIRs. The beginning of resolving this was ARIN proposal

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 14, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Bret Clark wrote: On 08/14/2010 11:27 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: I was at a trade show several months back. I watched a series of people walk up to a vendor and each, in turn, asked about IPv6 support. The vendor told each, in turn, You're the only one asking for it.

Re: 40 acres and a mule, was Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Scott Brim
On 08/14/2010 13:27 EDT, Jimi Thompson wrote: It was 40 acres and a mule - FYI That was Civil War, for freed slaves. Here in NY, war of independence veterans were given at least 100 acres each. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_New_York_Military_Tract

Re: 40 acres and a mule, was Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Aug 14, 2010, at 10:27, Jimi Thompson jimi.thomp...@gmail.com wrote: It was 40 acres and a mule - FYI No 40 acres was 1/4 of 1/4 of a section. That's 's Sherman's field order (1865) not the homestead act (which was 160). Or the circa 1790 activity referred to in this thread. Joel's

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Owen DeLong
I think you mistake my meaning. I don't regard RA and SLAAC as a problem. I regard their limited capabilities as a minor issue. I regard the IETF religion that insists on preventing DHCPv6 from having a complete set of capabilities for some form of RA protectionism to be the largest problem.

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread David Conrad
Bill, On Aug 14, 2010, at 8:51 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: In the formal ARIN context, there is a distiction between abuse and fraud. abuse:: https://www.arin.net/abuse.html This is a FAQ for folks who are accusing ARIN of abuse of network. With the possible

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread bmanning
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:32:50PM -0700, David Conrad wrote: Bill, On Aug 14, 2010, at 8:51 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: In the formal ARIN context, there is a distiction between abuse and fraud. abuse:: https://www.arin.net/abuse.html This is a FAQ for folks

Re: 40 acres and a mule, was Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Andrew Kirch
40 Acres and a Mule were promised to every slave freed in the south by General Grant. It was later rescinded. 600 acres was promised to non-landowning general militia soldiers after the Revolutionary war. You're only off by ~100 years. Andrew On 8/14/2010 1:27 PM, Jimi Thompson wrote:

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 15:25, Ken Chase k...@sizone.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:00:04PM -0400, Jared Mauch said:  I know of several large providers that would stop routing such rogue space. Really? They'd take a seriously delinquent (and we're only talking about non payment after

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 21:32, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: when the 'community' is defined as those policy wannabes who do the flying, take the cruise junkets, ... this is a self-perpetuating steaming load that is not gonna change. Yes, those definitions create a steaming load. But why is

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Randy Bush
for the embarrassing wannabe example of the month, marla and lee [0] at the last ietf is just such a shining example. at the mic, they state are from the arin ac and board, like it was their day job and they were speaking fo rarin ploicy. and they propose to roll back a decade of progress

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Randy Bush
First, in this thread we are not talking about folks who have not paid ARIN their dues, we are talking about folks who sell addresses despite not being authorized to do so by ARIN - aka abuse/fraud. this is less clear-cut than you seem to think it is. but i suspect we will see it in court

RE: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Frank Bulk
A possible stick for ARIN could be that any AS that advertises space for B and any network that uses that rogue AS would not receive resource requests/changes from ARIN. Perhaps too strong of a stick? Frank -Original Message- From: Ken Chase [mailto:k...@sizone.org] Sent: Friday,

RE: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Frank Bulk
This week I was told by my sales person at Red Condor that I'm the only one of his customers that is asking for IPv6. He sounded annoyed and it seemed like he was trying to make me feel bad for being the only oddball pushing the IPv6 feature requirement. I tried to explain to him that by this

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Randy Bush
A possible stick for ARIN could be that any AS that advertises space for B and any network that uses that rogue AS would not receive resource requests/changes from ARIN. Perhaps too strong of a stick? maybe you should not be searching for a stick.

40 x /18's and an ASN - was Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
The vendor I referred to earlier that does not support IPv6 explained this in a private meeting, not a sales pitch. We already use their products extensively. The discussion was more to the tune of we developed IPv6 support but stopped including it in the firmware releases because no one was using

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Randy Bush wrote: John - you do not get it... vadim, i assure you curran gets it. he has been around as long as you and i. the problem is that he has become a fiduciary of an organization which sees its survival and growth as its principal goal, free business class travel for wannabe

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread John Curran
On Aug 14, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: Question: Why does it cost $11 million or more per year (going to some $22 million per year after 2013) to run a couple of databases that are Internet-accessible? Patrick - If this is a reference to ARIN, the budget is approximately

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:03:59 MDT, Chris Grundemann said: First, in this thread we are not talking about folks who have not paid ARIN their dues, we are talking about folks who sell addresses despite not being authorized to do so by ARIN - aka abuse/fraud. Psst.. Hey.. buddy. Over here... wanna

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/14/2010 21:24, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:03:59 MDT, Chris Grundemann said: First, in this thread we are not talking about folks who have not paid ARIN their dues, we are talking about folks who sell addresses despite not being authorized to do so by ARIN - aka

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread David Conrad
Owen, On Aug 14, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: Let's clarify the definition of abuse in this context. We are not talking about people who use their IPs to abuse the network. We are talking about resource recipients who use their allocations or assignments in contravention to the