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Re: ARIN?

  • From: Steven J. Sobol
  • Date: Mon Nov 09 00:22:43 1998 
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 07:01:13PM -0500, Kim Hubbard wrote:

> By asking you not to SWIP assignments longer than /29 ARIN is not
> encouraging you to not issue them, we just don't think it's necessary
> to have every single dialup user listed in WHOIS.

I have to agree with Kim. That's why I shuddered when I thought of
every single static IP address at every ISP being SWIP'd. It would increase
ARIN's database exponentially and is not necessary.

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