I disagree. I think that the underlying physical topology of your network is something ARIN is quite intentionally agnostic about.
Owen On Sep 18, 2011, at 6:25 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: > I understand that tunneling meets the letter of the ARIN policy, but I'll > make the bold assumption that wasn't the spirit of the policy when it was > written. Maybe the policy needs to be amended to clarify that. > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leigh Porter [mailto:leigh.por...@ukbroadband.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 6:37 PM > To: frnk...@iname.com; 'Charles N Wyble'; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a > nationwide network > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] >> Sent: 18 September 2011 23:14 >> To: 'Charles N Wyble'; nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: RE: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on >> building a nationwide network >> >> Where I live in rural America, I would not be surprised that someone >> who wanted to start an ISP might only be able to cost-justify one >> upstream. When one Internet T-1 is $1,200/month, getting a second T-1 >> for that price from another provider just to get an AS or PI is >> definitely cost-prohibitive and may go against their business plan. >> >> Our own company has just one upstream provider (from geographically >> diverse POPs), our state's telecom coop, and to multi-home solely to >> meet ARIN's policy doesn't make sense. Fortunately we were using >> enough address space to meet the /20 requirement. >> >> Charles, if you wrote a policy that allowed smaller ISPs to obtain a PI >> without the multihoming requirement if they demonstrated that >> multihoming was burdensome, I would support it at arin-ppml. >> >> Frank > > I'll happily 'multihome' anybody over a GRE tunnel if it helps ;-) > > -- > Leigh > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ >
