On Feb 4, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: > > On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > >> I'm a little confused. Sounds like the things you are talking about all >> fall into the "if you are using your block" category, so he shouldn't worry. >> >> ARIN should not reclaim a block that is in use. Unless I am confused? >> (Happens a lot, especially as I get older.) > > How many addresses do I have to be using for it to count as in use? How high > will that number go in the next few months/years? > > We have a very old /24 direct allocation from the stone age, when we were a > dialup ISP. The company still exists, we just aren't providing dialup service > anymore. We still have a couple of our web-hosting customers, but for the > most part we've moved on to running an unrelated web-based service. Having > our own address space is nice because it means we don't have to worry about > stepping on anyone's AUP, we can go multi-homed later as the usage goes up, > and we don't have to worry about running out of space as the web service > grows. The problem is that while we met the eligibility requirements for an > ipv4 direct allocation back when we got it, the requirements have changed > over time and we no longer meet the eligibility requirements for an ipv4 > direct allocation. (We've shrunk quite a bit) As demand for the remaining > ipv4 addresses goes up, ARIN might decide that since we're ineligible for an > allocation under the current rules, we're no longer eligible to maintain the > space we have, and take it away from us. > > As the remaining space gets smaller, I expect that the number needed to > justify keeping my addresses is going to go up. I fear I'm already on thin > ice. >
If you don't sign the LRSA, who knows. If you sign the LRSA, you're completely protected regardless of future policy changes. Owen
