From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Aug 2 09:58:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA29590 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:49:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazz (jazz.arin.net [192.149.252.195]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA29586 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:49:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990802093820.01a12e10@192.149.252.141> X-Sender: kimh@192.149.252.141 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:45:38 -0400 To: arin-discuss@arin.net From: Kim Hubbard Subject: Need show of support for ASO proposal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Hello, The ICANN will be voting on whether to adopt the ASO proposal submitted by the RIRs during the Santiago, Chile ICANN meeting this month. It's very important that ICANN sees the support for this document from the ARIN members. Now personally, I think it'd be great if all of you just showed up in Santiago to show your support (we could have a great party) but since that's probably not going to happen I would appreciate those of you that do support this document to please send a short message to ICANN stating your support for the ASO proposal. Comments should be sent to comments@icann.org. BTW, for those of you that would like to go to the meeting in Santiago, info can be found at www.icann.org. Thanks for your help, Kim Hubbard ARIN From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Aug 30 12:29:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA11222 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:18:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazz (jazz.arin.net [192.149.252.195]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id MAA11218 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:18:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990830120729.01a655e0@192.149.252.141> X-Sender: kimh@192.149.252.141 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:12:44 -0400 To: arin-discuss@arin.net From: Kim Hubbard Subject: Need nominees for ARIN board and Advisory Seats Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_10875788==_.ALT" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR --=====================_10875788==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Please remember to submit nominations for open board and AC seats as soon as possible. We have questionnaires that we need all nominees to complete so they'll need some time to do this prior to nomcom review and posting of their names on our election webpage. To nominate an ARIN board member or Advisory Council member please see http://www.arin.net/members/ nominations99.htm Thanks, Kim --=====================_10875788==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Please remember to submit nominations for open board and AC seats as soon as possible.  We have questionnaires that we need all nominees to complete so they'll need some time to do this prior to nomcom review and posting of their names on our election webpage.

To nominate an ARIN board member or Advisory Council member please see http://www.arin.net/members/nominations99.htm

Thanks,
Kim --=====================_10875788==_.ALT-- From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 1 10:19:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA04823 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:12:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazz (jazz.arin.net [192.149.252.195]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA04817 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:12:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990901093515.01ac6eb0@192.149.252.141> X-Sender: kimh@192.149.252.141 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 10:07:22 -0400 To: arin-discuss@arin.net From: Kim Hubbard Subject: ARIN MEMBER UPDATE: ASO APPROVED Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR MEMBER UPDATE: Last week in Santiago, Chile, the ICANN Board of Directors approved the ASO proposal submitted by the Regional Registries (ARIN, RIPE and APNIC). The next step is for the RIRs boards to draft the MOU. ICANN has given us a deadline of October 15 to nominate 3 ICANN Board of Directors from the ASO. Although the ASO proposal was approved there was a small contingent of organizations that opposed it on the basis that they should be represented directly in the ASO rather than through the RIRs. The major stated motivation of this group, which included AT&T, BT, France Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, ETSI and CIX, was to be sure that future allocation strategies take adequate recognition of the special requirements of telephony (especially mobile telephony) and IP convergence. In an attempt to satisfy the concerns raised by this contingent the ICANN Board approved the following resolution proposed by Hans Kraainjenbrink (ICANN Board member) to create an ad hoc committee: Formation of Ad Hoc Group "RESOLVED [99.__] that the Interim President and CEO, working with Director Kraaijenbrink, is directed to establish an ad hoc group to be charged with developing the objectives and proposing structures for future policies in the area of numbering, especially as required to meet global market needs and taking into account the convergence of information technology services and networks. The group will include representatives of businesses, including telecom operators and Internet service providers and trade organizations, the ASO Council, the ICANN Board, and other legitimately interested parties. The group will present an interim report before the second ICANN public meeting in 2000. A final report from the ad hoc group will be presented to the ICANN Board prior to the Annual Meeting in 2000." There is still some question as to exactly what the charter of this committee will be and who will be allowed to participate. Since the purpose of this committee is unclear, the RIR representatives suggested delaying a vote on creating this ad hoc committee until after the community had a chance to discuss it. The ICANN Board felt there had already been extensive discussion. Mike Roberts (Interim President of ICANN) has been tasked with determining a charter for the ad hoc committee and determining who will be allowed to participate. We hope that this charter will be available for public comment prior to committee members being appointed. In the meantime, I cannot stress enough how important it is for you and your organizations to get involved in this process. We will be discussing ICANN/ASO issues at the public policy meeting in Denver in October. If these issues are not listed in your job description :-) and there is someone else from your organization better suited to deal with the political side than please bring them along with you to the ARIN public policy meeting. If you have any comments or questions about the ICANN meeting I will be more than happy to discuss them with you. Fortunately, there were members of the ARIN board and Advisory Council in attendance, specifically, Mike Straty, Ken Fockler, Don Telage (BoT), Cathy Wittbrodt and Jeremy Porter (AC). All of which I'm sure would be happy to participate in a discussion on this list. Thanks, Kim Hubbard ARIN From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 16 10:38:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA13234 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:22:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazz (jazz.arin.net [192.149.252.195]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA13230 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:22:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990916101026.01b51960@192.149.252.141> X-Sender: kimh@192.149.252.141 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:16:14 -0400 To: arin-discuss@arin.net From: Kim Hubbard Subject: Show support for ASO nominees Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_1021819==_.ALT" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR --=====================_1021819==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The current list of ASO Address Council nominees are on ARIN's webpage. To show support for one or more of these individuals just complete the form at http://www.arin.net/aso/aso.htm. You can also nominate someone new for the Address Council and ICANN Board of Directors. While you're at the ARIN website don't forget to sign up for the ARIN member and public policy meetings. See you in Denver... Kim --=====================_1021819==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
The current list of ASO Address Council nominees are on ARIN's webpage.  To show support for one or more of these individuals just complete the form at http://www.arin.net/aso/aso.htm.  You can also nominate someone new for the Address Council and ICANN Board of Directors.

While you're at the ARIN website don't forget to sign up for the ARIN member and public policy meetings.

See you in Denver...

Kim --=====================_1021819==_.ALT-- From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Oct 26 16:41:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA24426 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:39:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id QAA24422 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:39:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 24227 invoked from network); 26 Oct 1999 20:39:08 -0000 Received: from poptart.svr.home.net (HELO poptart.corp.home.net) (24.0.26.24) by rs1.arin.net with SMTP; 26 Oct 1999 20:39:08 -0000 Received: from groovy.eos.home.net ([24.0.16.187]) by poptart.corp.home.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA73A8 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:38:58 -0700 Received: from groovy.eos.home.net (cathy@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by groovy.eos.home.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA08804 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199910262038.NAA08804@groovy.eos.home.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 Subject: Announcing appointments of ICANN Board Members From: "CJ Wittbrodt" To: arin-discuss@arin.net Reply-to: cjw@corp.home.net Office: 425 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063 Phone: 650-569-5483 Fax: 650-569-5483 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:38:55 -0700 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR The address council of the Address Supporting Organisation of ICANN has has performed its first important task. Following the regional open calls for nominations, three members for the ICANN board have been selected. Congratulations go to: Ken Fockler (ARIN region) for a 1 year term Rob Blokzijl (RIPE NCC region) for a 3 years term Pindar Wong (APNIC region) for a 2 years term The terms may be reconsidered at the upcoming ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, but for formal reasons we had to decide on the terms without having time to meet or consult with the candidates. ---CJ From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Feb 14 14:53:59 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA06785 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:29:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from jazz (jazz.arin.net [192.149.252.195]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA06781 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:29:35 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.20000214140539.00c67d50@192.149.252.141> X-Sender: kimh@192.149.252.141 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:18:58 -0500 To: arin-discuss@arin.net From: Kim Hubbard Subject: New ICANN/USG contract for IANA services Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Hello, I thought you might be interested in reading the newly signed contract between ICANN and USG pertaining to IANA services, particularly interesting is the section relating to IP numbers. The ICANN responded to a USG RFQ on 2/2/00 and the contract was signed 2/9/00. The ICANN proposal is located at: http://www.icann.org/general/iana-proposal-02feb00.htm And the signed contract can be found at: http://www.icann.org/general/iana-contract-09feb00.htm Let me know if you have any comments. Thanks, Kim From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Feb 15 00:02:47 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id XAA26732 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:55:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA26720; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:54:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA03025; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:54:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from freeside.fc.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA35832; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:54:50 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200002150454.WAA35832@freeside.fc.net> To: Kim Hubbard cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: New ICANN/USG contract for IANA services In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:18:58 EST." <4.1.20000214140539.00c67d50@192.149.252.141> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:54:50 -0600 From: Jeremy Porter Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR One wonders if the following wording was deliberate: The ASO has three members: the three Regional Internet Registries (APNIC, ARIN, and RIPE NCC) that have been delegated responsibility by the IANA for routine allocation and assignment within their respective regions. These three organizations select members of the ASO's Address Council, which is responsible for developing consensus-based recommended policies concerning the operation, assignment and management of Internet (IP) addresses. i.e. with respect to "routine" assignments. Further: - Allocation of IP address blocks. This involves overall responsibility for the allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 address space. It includes delegations of IP address blocks to regional registries for routine allocation, typically through downstream providers, to Internet end-users within the regions served by those registries. It also includes reservation and direct allocation of space for special purposes, such as multicast addressing, cable blocks, addresses for private networks as described in RFC 1918, and globally specified applications. Presumable the wording of this is only a little lacking, in the term "cable blocks", because I'd like to get address from those special blocks since my address come over a "wire" or "cable". Sigh. Ok thats a red herring of sorts, as I'd guess the intent was to include the situtation where blocks for cable televions providers who are providing service over their HFC cable plants, are coming out of a different address range than other providers. But these "globally specified applications" worry me a bit. After the last ICANN meeting in LA, I thought the pretty clear consesous from everyone except the telephone companies, was that IP assignment was application neutral as far as policy was concerned, and that the ad-hoc committee as formed by the Santigio meeting was only to review and recommened new changes providing that they are merited, and the the IAB's concernces about non application neutrality were addressed. This response to RFC and contract seem to violate the spirit if not the letter of the agreements at these meetings, and that the US Governement has allowed ICANN to piggy back into a narrow window from a period of Feb 02 to Feb 09, is a cause if significant interest. The forces that want to staticly assign an IP address to every telephone handset, because that is the easly solution, as opposed to the correct solution, may already have won. This clearly needs to be discussed at the ICANN meeting in Cairo and and the next ARIN public policy meeting. Needless to say, I will be bringing this up in both forums. In message <4.1.20000214140539.00c67d50@192.149.252.141>, Kim Hubbard writes: >Hello, > >I thought you might be interested in reading the newly signed contract >between ICANN and USG pertaining to IANA services, particularly interesting >is the section relating to IP numbers. > >The ICANN responded to a USG RFQ on 2/2/00 and the contract was signed >2/9/00. > >The ICANN proposal is located at: >http://www.icann.org/general/iana-proposal-02feb00.htm > >And the signed contract can be found at: > > http://www.icann.org/general/iana-contract-09feb00.htm > >Let me know if you have any comments. > >Thanks, >Kim > --- jerry@fc.net Failure is a natural consequence of any nonscalable activity. -- Paul Vixie From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Jun 4 19:14:36 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA16494 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 18:56:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA16490 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 18:56:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA17897 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 18:56:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from randy by rip.psg.com with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12yjJw-000Bcs-00 for arin-discuss@arin.net; Sun, 04 Jun 2000 15:56:40 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Randy Bush To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: split b Message-Id: Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 15:56:40 -0700 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR this seems to be missing from the documentation of allocation policy, or i am even more confused than usual. randy rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.0.0 Cable & Wireless USA (NETBLK-CW-NETCS) 9000 Regency Parkway, Suite 200 Cary, NC 27511 US Netname: CW-NETCS20 Netblock: 166.49.0.0 - 166.49.127.255 Coordinator: Cable & Wireless USA (IA3-ORG-ARIN) ipadmin@cw.net 919-465-4160 Fax- 919-465-4187 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: NS.CW.NET 204.70.128.1 NS2.CW.NET 204.70.57.242 NS3.CW.NET 204.70.25.234 NS4.CW.NET 204.70.49.234 Record last updated on 16-Sep-1999. Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.128.0 Concert Communications Co. (NETBLK-CONCERTCOMM) 81 Newgate Street London, EC1A 7AJ GB Netname: CONCERTCOMM Netblock: 166.49.128.0 - 166.49.255.255 Coordinator: Koolen, Hans (HK45-ARIN) hkoolen@EU.CONCERT.NET +31 20 487 6584 (FAX) +31 20 487 6307 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: NS2.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.65.212 NS1.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.66.211 Record last updated on 23-Oct-1998. Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Jun 4 21:36:24 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA18340 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 21:28:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA18336 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 21:28:48 -0400 (EDT) From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Received: from vacation.karoshi.com (vacation.karoshi.com [128.9.104.5]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA25529 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 21:28:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmanning@localhost) by vacation.karoshi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01893; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:11:32 -0700 Message-Id: <200006050211.TAA01893@vacation.karoshi.com> Subject: Re: split b To: rbush@bainbridge.verio.net (Randy Bush) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:11:32 -0700 (PDT) Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net In-Reply-To: from "Randy Bush" at Jun 04, 2000 03:56:40 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Since this delegation predates ARINs existance, it seems that ARIN could have very little to say other than they grandfathered it in. > > this seems to be missing from the documentation of allocation policy, or i > am even more confused than usual. > > randy > > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.0.0 > Cable & Wireless USA (NETBLK-CW-NETCS) > 9000 Regency Parkway, Suite 200 > Cary, NC 27511 > US > > Netname: CW-NETCS20 > Netblock: 166.49.0.0 - 166.49.127.255 > > Coordinator: > Cable & Wireless USA (IA3-ORG-ARIN) ipadmin@cw.net > 919-465-4160 > Fax- 919-465-4187 > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: > > NS.CW.NET 204.70.128.1 > NS2.CW.NET 204.70.57.242 > NS3.CW.NET 204.70.25.234 > NS4.CW.NET 204.70.49.234 > > Record last updated on 16-Sep-1999. > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.128.0 > Concert Communications Co. (NETBLK-CONCERTCOMM) > 81 Newgate Street > London, EC1A 7AJ > GB > > Netname: CONCERTCOMM > Netblock: 166.49.128.0 - 166.49.255.255 > > Coordinator: > Koolen, Hans (HK45-ARIN) hkoolen@EU.CONCERT.NET > +31 20 487 6584 (FAX) +31 20 487 6307 > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: > > NS2.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.65.212 > NS1.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.66.211 > > Record last updated on 23-Oct-1998. > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 08:26:14 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id IAA15185 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:17:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA15163 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:17:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rottweiler.cwusa.com (rottweiler-dmz.cwusa.com [146.135.88.50]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA25701 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:17:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from us-cwi-exc-a04.cwusa.com (us-cwi-exc-a04.cwusa.com [146.135.85.81]) by rottweiler.cwusa.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA05505; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:16:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from thinman (204.71.37.36 [204.71.37.36]) by us-cwi-exc-a04.cwusa.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id M2BD7F9C; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:16:19 -0400 Reply-To: From: "Tanya Hinman" To: "Randy Bush" , Subject: RE: split b Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:16:15 -0400 Message-ID: <000101bfcee7$d84793c0$242547cc@thinman.cary.cw.netcw.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Randy, This allocation was a transfer/merger issue. What policy are you referring to? Tanya -----Original Message----- From: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net [mailto:owner-arin-discuss@arin.net]On Behalf Of Randy Bush Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 6:57 PM To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: split b this seems to be missing from the documentation of allocation policy, or i am even more confused than usual. randy rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.0.0 Cable & Wireless USA (NETBLK-CW-NETCS) 9000 Regency Parkway, Suite 200 Cary, NC 27511 US Netname: CW-NETCS20 Netblock: 166.49.0.0 - 166.49.127.255 Coordinator: Cable & Wireless USA (IA3-ORG-ARIN) ipadmin@cw.net 919-465-4160 Fax- 919-465-4187 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: NS.CW.NET 204.70.128.1 NS2.CW.NET 204.70.57.242 NS3.CW.NET 204.70.25.234 NS4.CW.NET 204.70.49.234 Record last updated on 16-Sep-1999. Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.128.0 Concert Communications Co. (NETBLK-CONCERTCOMM) 81 Newgate Street London, EC1A 7AJ GB Netname: CONCERTCOMM Netblock: 166.49.128.0 - 166.49.255.255 Coordinator: Koolen, Hans (HK45-ARIN) hkoolen@EU.CONCERT.NET +31 20 487 6584 (FAX) +31 20 487 6307 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: NS2.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.65.212 NS1.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.66.211 Record last updated on 23-Oct-1998. Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 09:00:48 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id IAA22357 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:53:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA22331 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:53:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from doberman.cwusa.com (doberman-dmz.cwusa.com [146.135.88.56]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA06034 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:53:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from us-cwi-exc-a10.cwusa.com (us-cwi-exc-a10.cwusa.com [146.135.85.143]) by doberman.cwusa.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA25598; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:52:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by us-cwi-exc-a10.cwi.cablew.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:52:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3FD40150593CD2119D5200805FA7D965050A7F8D@us-cwi-exc-a07.cwi.cablew.com> From: "Sweeting, John" To: "'bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com'" , rbush@bainbridge.verio.net Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: RE: split b Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:52:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Bill, this does not predate ARIN, this was accomplished through ARIN. -----Original Message----- From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com [mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com] Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 10:12 PM To: rbush@bainbridge.verio.net Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: split b Since this delegation predates ARINs existance, it seems that ARIN could have very little to say other than they grandfathered it in. > > this seems to be missing from the documentation of allocation policy, or i > am even more confused than usual. > > randy > > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.0.0 > Cable & Wireless USA (NETBLK-CW-NETCS) > 9000 Regency Parkway, Suite 200 > Cary, NC 27511 > US > > Netname: CW-NETCS20 > Netblock: 166.49.0.0 - 166.49.127.255 > > Coordinator: > Cable & Wireless USA (IA3-ORG-ARIN) ipadmin@cw.net > 919-465-4160 > Fax- 919-465-4187 > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: > > NS.CW.NET 204.70.128.1 > NS2.CW.NET 204.70.57.242 > NS3.CW.NET 204.70.25.234 > NS4.CW.NET 204.70.49.234 > > Record last updated on 16-Sep-1999. > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.128.0 > Concert Communications Co. (NETBLK-CONCERTCOMM) > 81 Newgate Street > London, EC1A 7AJ > GB > > Netname: CONCERTCOMM > Netblock: 166.49.128.0 - 166.49.255.255 > > Coordinator: > Koolen, Hans (HK45-ARIN) hkoolen@EU.CONCERT.NET > +31 20 487 6584 (FAX) +31 20 487 6307 > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: > > NS2.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.65.212 > NS1.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.66.211 > > Record last updated on 23-Oct-1998. > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 09:24:23 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA26697 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:17:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA26686 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:17:41 -0400 (EDT) From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Received: from vacation.karoshi.com (vacation.karoshi.com [128.9.104.5]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17528 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:17:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmanning@localhost) by vacation.karoshi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA02369; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 06:58:26 -0700 Message-Id: <200006051358.GAA02369@vacation.karoshi.com> Subject: Re: split b To: John.Sweeting@cwusa.com (Sweeting, John) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 06:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net In-Reply-To: <3FD40150593CD2119D5200805FA7D965050A7F93@us-cwi-exc-a07.cwi.cablew.com> from "Sweeting, John" at Jun 05, 2000 09:11:01 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Its useful to send this to the arin-discuss list so that a correct impression is made. The original delegation was made prior to ARIN and ARIN simply approved the split of a pre-existing delegation. ------------------------------------------------------ > > that was to MCI, it was split between C&W and Concert due to MCI selling its > internet business to C&W in the fall of 1998. > > -----Original Message----- > From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com > [mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:44 AM > To: John.Sweeting@cwusa.com > Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com > Subject: Re: split b > > > Hum, according to my database snapshots, 166.49.0.0/16 was delegated > in late 1996/early 1997. ARIN came into existance in 4q1997. I don't > know when the split in 166.49.0.0/16 occured. > > > > > > Bill, this does not predate ARIN, this was accomplished through ARIN. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > Since this delegation predates ARINs existance, it seems > > that ARIN could have very little to say other than they > > grandfathered > > it in. > > > > > > > > > > this seems to be missing from the documentation of allocation policy, or > i > > > am even more confused than usual. > > > > > > randy > > > > > > > > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.0.0 > > > Cable & Wireless USA (NETBLK-CW-NETCS) > > > 9000 Regency Parkway, Suite 200 > > > Cary, NC 27511 > > > US > > > > > > Netname: CW-NETCS20 > > > Netblock: 166.49.0.0 - 166.49.127.255 > > > > > > Coordinator: > > > Cable & Wireless USA (IA3-ORG-ARIN) ipadmin@cw.net > > > 919-465-4160 > > > Fax- 919-465-4187 > > > > > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: > > > > > > NS.CW.NET 204.70.128.1 > > > NS2.CW.NET 204.70.57.242 > > > NS3.CW.NET 204.70.25.234 > > > NS4.CW.NET 204.70.49.234 > > > > > > Record last updated on 16-Sep-1999. > > > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. > > > > > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.128.0 > > > Concert Communications Co. (NETBLK-CONCERTCOMM) > > > 81 Newgate Street > > > London, EC1A 7AJ > > > GB > > > > > > Netname: CONCERTCOMM > > > Netblock: 166.49.128.0 - 166.49.255.255 > > > > > > Coordinator: > > > Koolen, Hans (HK45-ARIN) hkoolen@EU.CONCERT.NET > > > +31 20 487 6584 (FAX) +31 20 487 6307 > > > > > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: > > > > > > NS2.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.65.212 > > > NS1.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.66.211 > > > > > > Record last updated on 23-Oct-1998. > > > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. > > > > > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 10:47:02 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA11263 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:40:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA11251 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:40:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10714 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:40:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from randy by rip.psg.com with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12yy0f-000G8Y-00; Mon, 05 Jun 2000 07:37:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Randy Bush To: Tanya Hinman Cc: Subject: RE: split b References: <000101bfcee7$d84793c0$242547cc@thinman.cary.cw.netcw.net> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 07:37:45 -0700 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR > This allocation was a transfer/merger issue. What policy are you referring > to? hi tanya (and john), a number of isps have route filters based on the rirs' allocation policies. 166.49.0.0 is in classic b space, where allocations are on a /16 boundary. our noc received a report of problems reaching the two /17s now being announced. i am trying to determine if arin has changed its allocation policy in part of the classic b space, in which case we would change our filters. i gather not. randy From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 10:56:54 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA13205 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:50:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA13200 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:50:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from doberman.cwusa.com (doberman-dmz.cwusa.com [146.135.88.56]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29261 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:50:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from us-cwi-exc-a10.cwusa.com (us-cwi-exc-a10.cwusa.com [146.135.85.143]) by doberman.cwusa.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA13989; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:47:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by us-cwi-exc-a10.cwi.cablew.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:47:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3FD40150593CD2119D5200805FA7D965050A7F97@us-cwi-exc-a07.cwi.cablew.com> From: "Sweeting, John" To: "'Peter Schroebel'" , "Sweeting, John" , bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, rbush@bainbridge.verio.net Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: RE: split b Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:47:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR All, this block went through the process and was reallocated by ARIN to C&W and Concert. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Schroebel [mailto:pschroebel@fullport.com] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 10:32 AM To: Sweeting, John; bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com; rbush@bainbridge.verio.net Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: split b It is my understanding that splitting netblocks or gaining netblocks via an aquistion or merger does not matter. In all cases netblocks are to be returned and reassigned based on the new entities qualified requirements. ARIN's has made this position very clear. If case should arise wherein there becomes numerous repeated aquistions and mergers. Then the network and netblocks would be owned by the Big Dogs and there would little that the small business and system users could do or say about. Moreover, there would no longer be an ARIN either Regards, Peter From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 12:11:53 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA29321 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:05:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazz (jazz.arin.net [192.149.252.195]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id MAA29312; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:05:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.20000605115028.01ad13c0@192.149.252.141> X-Sender: kimh@192.149.252.141 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:51:46 -0400 To: Randy Bush , Tanya Hinman From: Kim Hubbard Subject: RE: split b Cc: In-Reply-To: References: <000101bfcee7$d84793c0$242547cc@thinman.cary.cw.netcw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Randy, The original allocation was made pre-ARIN, however, the split was made by ARIN at the request of the participating organizations with the full understanding that there may be routing issues. We did not see any need to change our policies. Kim At 07:37 AM 6/5/00 -0700, Randy Bush wrote: >> This allocation was a transfer/merger issue. What policy are you referring >> to? > >hi tanya (and john), > >a number of isps have route filters based on the rirs' allocation policies. >166.49.0.0 is in classic b space, where allocations are on a /16 boundary. >our noc received a report of problems reaching the two /17s now being >announced. i am trying to determine if arin has changed its allocation >policy in part of the classic b space, in which case we would change our >filters. i gather not. > >randy From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 12:35:01 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA02273 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:23:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA02269 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:23:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from postino4.prima.com.ar (postino4.prima.com.ar [200.42.0.162]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA20369 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:23:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from prima28.admin ([172.16.1.8]) by postino4.prima.com.ar (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA11797; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:23:22 -0300 (ART) Received: from mail pickup service by prima28.admin with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:05:54 -0300 Received: from postino1.prima.com.ar ([200.42.0.132]) by prima28.admin with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.417.41); Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:03:20 -0300 Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by postino1.prima.com.ar (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA20739 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:03:35 -0300 (ART) Received: from ops.arin.net (ops.arin.net [192.149.252.141]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA08191; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:01:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id IAA22357 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:53:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA22331 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:53:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from doberman.cwusa.com (doberman-dmz.cwusa.com [146.135.88.56]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA06034 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:53:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from us-cwi-exc-a10.cwusa.com (us-cwi-exc-a10.cwusa.com [146.135.85.143]) by doberman.cwusa.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA25598; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:52:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by us-cwi-exc-a10.cwi.cablew.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:52:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3FD40150593CD2119D5200805FA7D965050A7F8D@us-cwi-exc-a07.cwi.cablew.com> From: "Sweeting, John" To: "'bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com'" , rbush@bainbridge.verio.net Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: RE: split b Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:52:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Bill, this does not predate ARIN, this was accomplished through ARIN. -----Original Message----- From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com [mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com] Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 10:12 PM To: rbush@bainbridge.verio.net Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: split b Since this delegation predates ARINs existance, it seems that ARIN could have very little to say other than they grandfathered it in. > > this seems to be missing from the documentation of allocation policy, or i > am even more confused than usual. > > randy > > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.0.0 > Cable & Wireless USA (NETBLK-CW-NETCS) > 9000 Regency Parkway, Suite 200 > Cary, NC 27511 > US > > Netname: CW-NETCS20 > Netblock: 166.49.0.0 - 166.49.127.255 > > Coordinator: > Cable & Wireless USA (IA3-ORG-ARIN) ipadmin@cw.net > 919-465-4160 > Fax- 919-465-4187 > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: > > NS.CW.NET 204.70.128.1 > NS2.CW.NET 204.70.57.242 > NS3.CW.NET 204.70.25.234 > NS4.CW.NET 204.70.49.234 > > Record last updated on 16-Sep-1999. > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.128.0 > Concert Communications Co. (NETBLK-CONCERTCOMM) > 81 Newgate Street > London, EC1A 7AJ > GB > > Netname: CONCERTCOMM > Netblock: 166.49.128.0 - 166.49.255.255 > > Coordinator: > Koolen, Hans (HK45-ARIN) hkoolen@EU.CONCERT.NET > +31 20 487 6584 (FAX) +31 20 487 6307 > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: > > NS2.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.65.212 > NS1.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.66.211 > > Record last updated on 23-Oct-1998. > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 12:53:22 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA04563 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:46:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA04556 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:46:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00611 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:46:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from freeside.fc.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA34700; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:43:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200006051643.LAA34700@freeside.fc.net> To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com cc: John.Sweeting@cwusa.com (Sweeting, John), arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: split b In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 06:58:25 PDT." <200006051358.GAA02369@vacation.karoshi.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:43:48 -0500 From: Jeremy Porter Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR There still seems to be some confusion here, as far as I know there is no policy at ARIN that provides for a legacy assignment (one made before ARIN's inception) to be split into multiple parts. I know of no ARIN policy that prevents this either. However, according to the guidelines I'm aware of, both parties would be required to re-justify each /17 worth of space. Presumeably they did so, in order for ARIN to approve it. This is explicitly required under current ARIN policy, as I understand it. The problem becomes then, assuming ARIN did approve the rejustification, that there is no mechanism at ARIN or elsewhere to provide notifications of current "delegation models" which inidicate what size blocks are allocated out of what size ranges. ARIN does operate a Routing Registry in which this information could be stored programaticlly which could be queried programaticly or manually to check BGP announcements v. RIR assignment or allocation. I believe Randy is correct in his opinion that no policy decision was made with regard to making assignments out of "Classic B Space" of a prefix size of /17. (Which is what happened). However it seems clear to me that ARIN polices and guidelines allow for this to happen under the circumstances described. Thus it is important that we take this into consideration. In message <200006051358.GAA02369@vacation.karoshi.com>, bmanning@vacation.karoshi .com writes: > > Its useful to send this to the arin-discuss list so that a correct > impression is made. The original delegation was made prior to ARIN > and ARIN simply approved the split of a pre-existing delegation. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > >> >> that was to MCI, it was split between C&W and Concert due to MCI selling its >> internet business to C&W in the fall of 1998. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com >> [mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com] >> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:44 AM >> To: John.Sweeting@cwusa.com >> Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com >> Subject: Re: split b >> >> >> Hum, according to my database snapshots, 166.49.0.0/16 was delegated >> in late 1996/early 1997. ARIN came into existance in 4q1997. I don't >> know when the split in 166.49.0.0/16 occured. >> >> >> > >> > Bill, this does not predate ARIN, this was accomplished through ARIN. >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > >> > >> > Since this delegation predates ARINs existance, it seems >> > that ARIN could have very little to say other than they >> > grandfathered >> > it in. >> > >> > >> > > >> > > this seems to be missing from the documentation of allocation policy, or >> i >> > > am even more confused than usual. >> > > >> > > randy >> > > >> > > >> > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.0.0 >> > > Cable & Wireless USA (NETBLK-CW-NETCS) >> > > 9000 Regency Parkway, Suite 200 >> > > Cary, NC 27511 >> > > US >> > > >> > > Netname: CW-NETCS20 >> > > Netblock: 166.49.0.0 - 166.49.127.255 >> > > >> > > Coordinator: >> > > Cable & Wireless USA (IA3-ORG-ARIN) ipadmin@cw.net >> > > 919-465-4160 >> > > Fax- 919-465-4187 >> > > >> > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: >> > > >> > > NS.CW.NET 204.70.128.1 >> > > NS2.CW.NET 204.70.57.242 >> > > NS3.CW.NET 204.70.25.234 >> > > NS4.CW.NET 204.70.49.234 >> > > >> > > Record last updated on 16-Sep-1999. >> > > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. >> > > >> > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.128.0 >> > > Concert Communications Co. (NETBLK-CONCERTCOMM) >> > > 81 Newgate Street >> > > London, EC1A 7AJ >> > > GB >> > > >> > > Netname: CONCERTCOMM >> > > Netblock: 166.49.128.0 - 166.49.255.255 >> > > >> > > Coordinator: >> > > Koolen, Hans (HK45-ARIN) hkoolen@EU.CONCERT.NET >> > > +31 20 487 6584 (FAX) +31 20 487 6307 >> > > >> > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: >> > > >> > > NS2.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.65.212 >> > > NS1.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.66.211 >> > > >> > > Record last updated on 23-Oct-1998. >> > > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. >> > > >> > >> > --- jerry@fc.net Director Network Operations/Network Engineering, Wayport, Inc. 512-519-6193 www.wayport.net 8303 Mopac Expressway Suite A300, Austin Tx. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 13:04:30 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA05680 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:57:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA05673 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:57:41 -0400 (EDT) From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Received: from vacation.karoshi.com (vacation.karoshi.com [128.9.104.5]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02312 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:57:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmanning@localhost) by vacation.karoshi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA02756; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:37:55 -0700 Message-Id: <200006051737.KAA02756@vacation.karoshi.com> Subject: Re: split b To: jerry@fc.net (Jeremy Porter) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: John.Sweeting@cwusa.com (Sweeting John), arin-discuss@arin.net In-Reply-To: <200006051643.LAA34700@freeside.fc.net> from "Jeremy Porter" at Jun 05, 2000 11:43:48 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR > The problem becomes then, assuming ARIN did approve the rejustification, > that there is no mechanism at ARIN or elsewhere to provide notifications > of current "delegation models" which inidicate what size blocks are > allocated out of what size ranges. ARIN does operate a Routing Registry > in which this information could be stored programaticlly which could > be queried programaticly or manually to check BGP announcements v. > RIR assignment or allocation. ARINs use of registry technology post-dates this split. One presumes that Mr. Bush pulled the relevent information from the ARIN routing registry via whois. > I believe Randy is correct in his opinion that no policy decision was > made with regard to making assignments out of "Classic B Space" of a > prefix size of /17. (Which is what happened). However it seems clear > to me that ARIN polices and guidelines allow for this to happen > under the circumstances described. Thus it is important that > we take this into consideration. Well, I beg to differ. A policy decision was made and the split was done. This may have been done as a "one-off" but it does provide a prior-use argument for future splits to occur. I agree that existant ARIN policy (as I understand it) will allow such splits to occur. Perhaps ISPs would begin to realize that a blanket summarization of filtering is prone to many errors, esp. due to historical delegations and policy considerations that are now OBE but have been grandfathered in. > > In message <200006051358.GAA02369@vacation.karoshi.com>, bmanning@vacation.karoshi > .com writes: > > > > Its useful to send this to the arin-discuss list so that a correct > > impression is made. The original delegation was made prior to ARIN > > and ARIN simply approved the split of a pre-existing delegation. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > >> > >> that was to MCI, it was split between C&W and Concert due to MCI selling its > >> internet business to C&W in the fall of 1998. > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com > >> [mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com] > >> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:44 AM > >> To: John.Sweeting@cwusa.com > >> Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com > >> Subject: Re: split b > >> > >> > >> Hum, according to my database snapshots, 166.49.0.0/16 was delegated > >> in late 1996/early 1997. ARIN came into existance in 4q1997. I don't > >> know when the split in 166.49.0.0/16 occured. > >> > >> > >> > > >> > Bill, this does not predate ARIN, this was accomplished through ARIN. > >> > > >> > -----Original Message----- > >> > > >> > > >> > Since this delegation predates ARINs existance, it seems > >> > that ARIN could have very little to say other than they > >> > grandfathered > >> > it in. > >> > > >> > > >> > > > >> > > this seems to be missing from the documentation of allocation policy, or > >> i > >> > > am even more confused than usual. > >> > > > >> > > randy > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.0.0 > >> > > Cable & Wireless USA (NETBLK-CW-NETCS) > >> > > 9000 Regency Parkway, Suite 200 > >> > > Cary, NC 27511 > >> > > US > >> > > > >> > > Netname: CW-NETCS20 > >> > > Netblock: 166.49.0.0 - 166.49.127.255 > >> > > > >> > > Coordinator: > >> > > Cable & Wireless USA (IA3-ORG-ARIN) ipadmin@cw.net > >> > > 919-465-4160 > >> > > Fax- 919-465-4187 > >> > > > >> > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: > >> > > > >> > > NS.CW.NET 204.70.128.1 > >> > > NS2.CW.NET 204.70.57.242 > >> > > NS3.CW.NET 204.70.25.234 > >> > > NS4.CW.NET 204.70.49.234 > >> > > > >> > > Record last updated on 16-Sep-1999. > >> > > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. > >> > > > >> > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.128.0 > >> > > Concert Communications Co. (NETBLK-CONCERTCOMM) > >> > > 81 Newgate Street > >> > > London, EC1A 7AJ > >> > > GB > >> > > > >> > > Netname: CONCERTCOMM > >> > > Netblock: 166.49.128.0 - 166.49.255.255 > >> > > > >> > > Coordinator: > >> > > Koolen, Hans (HK45-ARIN) hkoolen@EU.CONCERT.NET > >> > > +31 20 487 6584 (FAX) +31 20 487 6307 > >> > > > >> > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: > >> > > > >> > > NS2.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.65.212 > >> > > NS1.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.66.211 > >> > > > >> > > Record last updated on 23-Oct-1998. > >> > > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > > --- jerry@fc.net > Director Network Operations/Network Engineering, Wayport, Inc. > 512-519-6193 www.wayport.net > 8303 Mopac Expressway Suite A300, Austin Tx. > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 13:26:43 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA11162 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:20:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA11156 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:20:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-la.station.sony.com (mail-la.station.sony.com [209.0.234.32]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17568 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:20:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-la.station.sony.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:19:52 -0700 Message-ID: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B015EC003@mail-la.station.sony.com> From: "Hostmaster, Verant" To: "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" Subject: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:19:47 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Hello. I'm very interested in learning what are the route filtering policies of the larger ISPs. We're architecting our /18 now, and concerned that some of our smaller announcements (/22 or perhaps as small as /24) might not get carried throughout the entire Internet. What I would appreciate is that anyone on this list who restricts their learned routes to prefixes shorter than /24s please let me know what your policies are. Is there a standard that most adhere to? I am reading about "rirs" in Randy's below email.. what were rirs' allocation policies? We've recently discovered one large ISP blocking /23s and /24s from 24.*.*.* , since it is a classic class "A". After a few days of grief, they finally realized that since 24.*.*.* had been chopped up and given to cablemodem providers, it has announcements that small, and they now will accept as small as /24s coming from 24.*.*.*. Our block is 64.37.128.0/18, and I'm concerned that some old filters that were put in place long ago might harm us, in that 64.*.*.* only recently started being issued by ARIN, and that technically it is a class "A" block. ---- Dani D. Roisman Verant Interactive hostmaster@verant.com (310) 840-8753 > -----Original Message----- > From: Randy Bush [SMTP:rbush@bainbridge.verio.net] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 7:38 AM > To: Tanya Hinman > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net > Subject: RE: split b > > > This allocation was a transfer/merger issue. What policy are you > referring > > to? > > hi tanya (and john), > > a number of isps have route filters based on the rirs' allocation > policies. > 166.49.0.0 is in classic b space, where allocations are on a /16 boundary. > our noc received a report of problems reaching the two /17s now being > announced. i am trying to determine if arin has changed its allocation > policy in part of the classic b space, in which case we would change our > filters. i gather not. > > randy From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 14:14:32 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA17470 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:07:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazz (jazz.arin.net [192.149.252.195]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA17466; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:07:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.20000605134442.01aff430@192.149.252.141> X-Sender: kimh@192.149.252.141 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:54:34 -0400 To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, jerry@fc.net (Jeremy Porter) From: Kim Hubbard Subject: Re: split b Cc: John.Sweeting@cwusa.com (Sweeting John), arin-discuss@arin.net In-Reply-To: <200006051737.KAA02756@vacation.karoshi.com> References: <200006051643.LAA34700@freeside.fc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR At 10:37 AM 6/5/00 -0700, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: >> The problem becomes then, assuming ARIN did approve the rejustification, >> that there is no mechanism at ARIN or elsewhere to provide notifications >> of current "delegation models" which inidicate what size blocks are >> allocated out of what size ranges. ARIN does operate a Routing Registry >> in which this information could be stored programaticlly which could >> be queried programaticly or manually to check BGP announcements v. >> RIR assignment or allocation. > > ARINs use of registry technology post-dates this split. > One presumes that Mr. Bush pulled the relevent information > from the ARIN routing registry via whois. > >> I believe Randy is correct in his opinion that no policy decision was >> made with regard to making assignments out of "Classic B Space" of a >> prefix size of /17. (Which is what happened). However it seems clear >> to me that ARIN polices and guidelines allow for this to happen >> under the circumstances described. Thus it is important that >> we take this into consideration. > > Well, I beg to differ. A policy decision was made and the > split was done. This may have been done as a "one-off" but > it does provide a prior-use argument for future splits > to occur. I agree that existant ARIN policy (as I understand it) > will allow such splits to occur. Perhaps ISPs would begin > to realize that a blanket summarization of filtering is prone > to many errors, esp. due to historical delegations and policy > considerations that are now OBE but have been grandfathered in. I'm personally looking at this differently. If organizations want their Class B's split in our database knowing they may be filtered than that's their business. As Randy said, the organizations in question agreed to work out the specifics so filtering wasn't suppose to be an issue for them. I don't necessarily believe that we should (based on this one instance) move to make a formal policy change wherin ISPs would feel compelled to change their filtering policies....again. Kim > > > >> >> In message <200006051358.GAA02369@vacation.karoshi.com>, >bmanning@vacation.karoshi >> .com writes: >> > >> > Its useful to send this to the arin-discuss list so that a correct >> > impression is made. The original delegation was made prior to ARIN >> > and ARIN simply approved the split of a pre-existing delegation. >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------ >> > >> > >> >> >> >> that was to MCI, it was split between C&W and Concert due to MCI >selling its >> >> internet business to C&W in the fall of 1998. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com >> >> [mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com] >> >> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:44 AM >> >> To: John.Sweeting@cwusa.com >> >> Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com >> >> Subject: Re: split b >> >> >> >> >> >> Hum, according to my database snapshots, 166.49.0.0/16 was delegated >> >> in late 1996/early 1997. ARIN came into existance in 4q1997. I don't >> >> know when the split in 166.49.0.0/16 occured. >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > Bill, this does not predate ARIN, this was accomplished through ARIN. >> >> > >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Since this delegation predates ARINs existance, it seems >> >> > that ARIN could have very little to say other than they >> >> > grandfathered >> >> > it in. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > > >> >> > > this seems to be missing from the documentation of allocation >policy, or >> >> i >> >> > > am even more confused than usual. >> >> > > >> >> > > randy >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.0.0 >> >> > > Cable & Wireless USA (NETBLK-CW-NETCS) >> >> > > 9000 Regency Parkway, Suite 200 >> >> > > Cary, NC 27511 >> >> > > US >> >> > > >> >> > > Netname: CW-NETCS20 >> >> > > Netblock: 166.49.0.0 - 166.49.127.255 >> >> > > >> >> > > Coordinator: >> >> > > Cable & Wireless USA (IA3-ORG-ARIN) ipadmin@cw.net >> >> > > 919-465-4160 >> >> > > Fax- 919-465-4187 >> >> > > >> >> > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: >> >> > > >> >> > > NS.CW.NET 204.70.128.1 >> >> > > NS2.CW.NET 204.70.57.242 >> >> > > NS3.CW.NET 204.70.25.234 >> >> > > NS4.CW.NET 204.70.49.234 >> >> > > >> >> > > Record last updated on 16-Sep-1999. >> >> > > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. >> >> > > >> >> > > rip.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> whois -h whois.arin.net 166.49.128.0 >> >> > > Concert Communications Co. (NETBLK-CONCERTCOMM) >> >> > > 81 Newgate Street >> >> > > London, EC1A 7AJ >> >> > > GB >> >> > > >> >> > > Netname: CONCERTCOMM >> >> > > Netblock: 166.49.128.0 - 166.49.255.255 >> >> > > >> >> > > Coordinator: >> >> > > Koolen, Hans (HK45-ARIN) hkoolen@EU.CONCERT.NET >> >> > > +31 20 487 6584 (FAX) +31 20 487 6307 >> >> > > >> >> > > Domain System inverse mapping provided by: >> >> > > >> >> > > NS2.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.65.212 >> >> > > NS1.EU.CONCERT.NET 195.99.66.211 >> >> > > >> >> > > Record last updated on 23-Oct-1998. >> >> > > Database last updated on 2-Jun-2000 17:47:08 EDT. >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> --- jerry@fc.net >> Director Network Operations/Network Engineering, Wayport, Inc. >> 512-519-6193 www.wayport.net >> 8303 Mopac Expressway Suite A300, Austin Tx. >> From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 14:25:16 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA18948 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:18:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA18943 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:18:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from alpha.cdp.adelphia.net (alpha.cdp.adelphia.net [24.48.64.2]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21258 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:18:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dave.adelphia.net ([24.48.58.57]) by alpha.cdp.adelphia.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA10554; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:13:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000605133945.00d555f0@mail.cdp.adelphia.net> X-Sender: dbernardi@mail.cdp.adelphia.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 14:11:09 -0400 To: "Hostmaster, Verant" , "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" From: dave bernardi Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) In-Reply-To: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B015EC003@mail-la.station.s ony.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Dani, Verio will accept /20 and shorter out of "some" traditional class A space which is the most restrictive we've experienced from the big providers. Sprint says /24 but I've seen longer; and even longer from UUnet and Qwest. http://info.us.bb.verio.net/routing.html http://www.sprintlink.net/policy/bgp_filters.html Your 64.37.128.0/18 should be fine. Dave B> At 10:19 AM 6/5/00 -0700, Hostmaster, Verant wrote: >Hello. I'm very interested in learning what are the route filtering >policies of the larger ISPs. We're architecting our /18 now, and concerned >that some of our smaller announcements (/22 or perhaps as small as /24) >might not get carried throughout the entire Internet. What I would >appreciate is that anyone on this list who restricts their learned routes to >prefixes shorter than /24s please let me know what your policies are. > >Is there a standard that most adhere to? I am reading about "rirs" in >Randy's below email.. what were rirs' allocation policies? > >We've recently discovered one large ISP blocking /23s and /24s from 24.*.*.* >, since it is a classic class "A". After a few days of grief, they finally >realized that since 24.*.*.* had been chopped up and given to cablemodem >providers, it has announcements that small, and they now will accept as >small as /24s coming from 24.*.*.*. > >Our block is 64.37.128.0/18, and I'm concerned that some old filters that >were put in place long ago might harm us, in that 64.*.*.* only recently >started being issued by ARIN, and that technically it is a class "A" block. > >---- >Dani D. Roisman >Verant Interactive >hostmaster@verant.com >(310) 840-8753 > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Randy Bush [SMTP:rbush@bainbridge.verio.net] >> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 7:38 AM >> To: Tanya Hinman >> Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net >> Subject: RE: split b >> >> > This allocation was a transfer/merger issue. What policy are you >> referring >> > to? >> >> hi tanya (and john), >> >> a number of isps have route filters based on the rirs' allocation >> policies. >> 166.49.0.0 is in classic b space, where allocations are on a /16 boundary. >> our noc received a report of problems reaching the two /17s now being >> announced. i am trying to determine if arin has changed its allocation >> policy in part of the classic b space, in which case we would change our >> filters. i gather not. >> >> randy -- Dave Bernardi From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 14:25:48 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA19029 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:19:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA19020 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:19:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from post.xecu.net (post.xecu.net [216.127.136.211]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21575 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:19:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from shell.xecu.net (shell.xecu.net [216.127.136.216]) by post.xecu.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FD648E8 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:17:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by shell.xecu.net (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13414 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:19:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.xecu.net: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:19:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Dills To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: split b In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000605134442.01aff430@192.149.252.141> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Kim Hubbard wrote: > I'm personally looking at this differently. If organizations want their > Class B's split in our database knowing they may be filtered than that's > their business. As Randy said, the organizations in question agreed to > work out the specifics so filtering wasn't suppose to be an issue for them. > I don't necessarily believe that we should (based on this one instance) > move to make a formal policy change wherin ISPs would feel compelled to > change their filtering policies....again. I understand the historical reasons for filtering routers based on prefix and prefix length, but I can't figure out why this is still a common practice. I'm not even convinced it is a common practice any more. So, why would it be in a network's best interest to filter based on prefix/prefix length? Andy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 16:09:37 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA00942 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:03:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA00926 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:03:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-la.station.sony.com (mail-la.station.sony.com [209.0.234.32]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA19766 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:03:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-la.station.sony.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:03:16 -0700 Message-ID: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B015EC00D@mail-la.station.sony.com> From: "Hostmaster, Verant" To: "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" Cc: Network Operations Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:03:08 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Thanks for the URL... hm.. /20 and shorter only in 64/8? That's a bit strict, no? We have different networks off our 64.34.128/18 block, which we would like to announce in /21 and /22 blocks. There's a good chance we won't aggregate, since the networks might each have OC3 or OC12 links to the Internet, but in some places as slow as T1 between the two networks, and I wouldn't want to backhaul accross the T1. Who should I contact at Verio to discuss losening the filtering policy? Also, is there a Verio looking glass, so that I can test whether my routes are visible? If you'd like to test, try 64.37.160.1 - it's pingable, and announced on 64.37.160.0/24. For a longer prefix, pls try 64.37.128.5, announced on 64.37.128.0/20 ---- Dani Roisman Sony Online Entertainment droisman@station.sony.com (310) 840-8753 > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Junkins [SMTP:junkins@orcasisland.verio.net] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 00 10:52 AM > To: Hostmaster, Verant > Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > See "http://info.us.bb.verio.net/routing.html#PeerFilter". > > -Doug > > On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:19:47AM -0700, Hostmaster, Verant wrote: > > Hello. I'm very interested in learning what are the route filtering > > policies of the larger ISPs. We're architecting our /18 now, and > concerned > > that some of our smaller announcements (/22 or perhaps as small as /24) > > might not get carried throughout the entire Internet. What I would > > appreciate is that anyone on this list who restricts their learned > routes to > > prefixes shorter than /24s please let me know what your policies are. > > > > Is there a standard that most adhere to? I am reading about "rirs" in > > Randy's below email.. what were rirs' allocation policies? > > > > We've recently discovered one large ISP blocking /23s and /24s from > 24.*.*.* > > , since it is a classic class "A". After a few days of grief, they > finally > > realized that since 24.*.*.* had been chopped up and given to cablemodem > > providers, it has announcements that small, and they now will accept as > > small as /24s coming from 24.*.*.*. > > > > Our block is 64.37.128.0/18, and I'm concerned that some old filters > that > > were put in place long ago might harm us, in that 64.*.*.* only recently > > started being issued by ARIN, and that technically it is a class "A" > block. > > > > ---- > > Dani D. Roisman > > Verant Interactive > > hostmaster@verant.com > > (310) 840-8753 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Randy Bush [SMTP:rbush@bainbridge.verio.net] > > > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 7:38 AM > > > To: Tanya Hinman > > > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net > > > Subject: RE: split b > > > > > > > This allocation was a transfer/merger issue. What policy are you > > > referring > > > > to? > > > > > > hi tanya (and john), > > > > > > a number of isps have route filters based on the rirs' allocation > > > policies. > > > 166.49.0.0 is in classic b space, where allocations are on a /16 > boundary. > > > our noc received a report of problems reaching the two /17s now being > > > announced. i am trying to determine if arin has changed its > allocation > > > policy in part of the classic b space, in which case we would change > our > > > filters. i gather not. > > > > > > randy From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 17:36:23 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA09589 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:31:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA09585 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:31:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-la.station.sony.com (mail-la.station.sony.com [209.0.234.32]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA07301 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:31:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-la.station.sony.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:30:58 -0700 Message-ID: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B01CFBBA3@mail-la.station.sony.com> From: "Hostmaster, Verant" To: "'Paul A Vixie'" Cc: "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:30:57 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Our situation is that we are multihomed to a few providors at each location, but not necessarily with a backbone-grade link between each physical location. We do not resell connectivity, but use it all for our own Internet application serving. So it's not really that irresponsible, in that we cannot just take blocks from our providers. I know of providers that accept as small as /24s, and I know of networks that announce /23s and /24s and have no aggregate to fall back on. In fact in the case I described, we were able to affect a change, which was prohibiting many cablemodem customers from accessing not only us, but the network of a large ISP. But perhaps you can shed some light on the question asked by another on this thread - why exactly would you filter on anything shorter than a /24? RAM on your routers? CPU? On my network, I want to pick up as specific routes (well, up to /24) as the other network wants to announce to me - chances are I'll get a better connection using a more specific prefix. Follow up question - where do you come up with /20 as the magic length for class A's and B's, but /24 for class C's? Additionally, ARIN is now handing out 64.0.0.0/8 in smaller blocks. Perhaps someone on this list can speak to the smallest block being handed out in 64.0.0.0/8. ---- Dani Roisman Verant Interactive hostmaster@verant.com (310) 840-8753 > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul A Vixie [SMTP:vixie@mibh.net] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 00 2:04 PM > To: Hostmaster, Verant > Cc: 'arin-discuss@arin.net'; Network Operations > Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > Thanks for the URL... hm.. /20 and shorter only in 64/8? That's a bit > > strict, no? We have different networks off our 64.34.128/18 block, > which we > > would like to announce in /21 and /22 blocks. There's a good chance we > > won't aggregate, since the networks might each have OC3 or OC12 links to > the > > Internet, but in some places as slow as T1 between the two networks, and > I > > wouldn't want to backhaul accross the T1. > > that's an incredibly irresponsible way to build a net. if you're going to > be a transit aggregator, then by all means get small blocks your providers > and pay them extra to get cutouts. the expectation we all have when you > get > an address block is that you intend to advertise it, not carve it up. > > > Who should I contact at Verio to discuss losening the filtering policy? > > won't help. see http://www.mibh.net/mibh-peering.html and know that if > you > tried to get us to loosen it we would definitely not. there are dozens if > not hundreds of nets running with this policy. the thing to change is > your > plan, not the commonly implemented route filtering policy of the whole > 'net. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 18:24:17 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA12316 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:18:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA12312 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:18:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mx01.cafemail.com (mx01.cafemail.com [207.201.29.131]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01339 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:18:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mx10 ([207.201.29.77]) by mx01.cafemail.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-18505) with SMTP id AAA47; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:18:22 -0700 Message-ID: <032f01bfcf3b$f608b890$4d1dc9cf@javamail.com> Reply-To: "Charles Winter" From: cwinter@communicationnation.com (Charles Winter) To: "Hostmaster, Verant" , "'Paul A Vixie'" Cc: , "Brent Walters" , "Joe Murray" References: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B01CFBBA3@mail-la.station.sony.com> Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:18:21 -0700 Organization: Communication Nation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Dani, At present there are about 40,000 some-odd CIDR routes being propagated. This takes just shy of 64meg. on a Cisco router - you can go to a publicly available route server to check this out - so we all order border routers with a minimum of 128 Meg. If no agriagation was done, it would be very easy to exceed the maximum available memory a Cisco router can handle - at present 256Meg. It does not take a lot of CPU to forward and receive route updates. EBGP - Exterior BGP (vs. IntereiorBGP) does not like to announce subnetted /24 - thank goodness. Good policy is to aggrigate as much as possible, and this is the force driving Router Arbiter Data Bases. To try to keep the Internet from "flyingh apart" as one company put it. A /20 is the smallest usuall allocation ARIN will make - there are a few exceptions ... Charles Winter cwinter@communicationnation.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Hostmaster, Verant To: 'Paul A Vixie' Cc: Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 2:30 PM Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > Our situation is that we are multihomed to a few providors at each location, > but not necessarily with a backbone-grade link between each physical > location. We do not resell connectivity, but use it all for our own > Internet application serving. > > So it's not really that irresponsible, in that we cannot just take blocks > from our providers. I know of providers that accept as small as /24s, and I > know of networks that announce /23s and /24s and have no aggregate to fall > back on. In fact in the case I described, we were able to affect a change, > which was prohibiting many cablemodem customers from accessing not only us, > but the network of a large ISP. > > But perhaps you can shed some light on the question asked by another on this > thread - why exactly would you filter on anything shorter than a /24? RAM > on your routers? CPU? On my network, I want to pick up as specific routes > (well, up to /24) as the other network wants to announce to me - chances are > I'll get a better connection using a more specific prefix. > > Follow up question - where do you come up with /20 as the magic length for > class A's and B's, but /24 for class C's? > > Additionally, ARIN is now handing out 64.0.0.0/8 in smaller blocks. Perhaps > someone on this list can speak to the smallest block being handed out in > 64.0.0.0/8. > > ---- > Dani Roisman > Verant Interactive > hostmaster@verant.com > (310) 840-8753 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul A Vixie [SMTP:vixie@mibh.net] > > Sent: Monday, June 05, 00 2:04 PM > > To: Hostmaster, Verant > > Cc: 'arin-discuss@arin.net'; Network Operations > > Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > > > Thanks for the URL... hm.. /20 and shorter only in 64/8? That's a bit > > > strict, no? We have different networks off our 64.34.128/18 block, > > which we > > > would like to announce in /21 and /22 blocks. There's a good chance we > > > won't aggregate, since the networks might each have OC3 or OC12 links to > > the > > > Internet, but in some places as slow as T1 between the two networks, and > > I > > > wouldn't want to backhaul accross the T1. > > > > that's an incredibly irresponsible way to build a net. if you're going to > > be a transit aggregator, then by all means get small blocks your providers > > and pay them extra to get cutouts. the expectation we all have when you > > get > > an address block is that you intend to advertise it, not carve it up. > > > > > Who should I contact at Verio to discuss losening the filtering policy? > > > > won't help. see http://www.mibh.net/mibh-peering.html and know that if > > you > > tried to get us to loosen it we would definitely not. there are dozens if > > not hundreds of nets running with this policy. the thing to change is > > your > > plan, not the commonly implemented route filtering policy of the whole > > 'net. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 18:31:54 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA12513 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:26:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA12504 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:26:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.NetWright.Net (MAIL.NETWRIGHT.NET [216.169.0.242]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05592 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:26:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from SWEETNESS ([216.169.0.254]) by mail.NetWright.Net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53597U1000L100S0V35) with SMTP id Net for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:26:29 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Mike Lieberman" To: Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:26:27 -0600 Message-ID: <001a01bfcf3d$17e23a80$fe00a9d8@SWEETNESS> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B01CFBBA3@mail-la.station.sony.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR This conversation about filter leaves me scratching my head. Some of you are making a specific assumption that only large bandwidth, large block users must multihome between various providers. While I do not argue that this is the most common situation, it is not the only situation. We support one company that is currently multi-homed between two providers and will likely be adding a third. No line is larger than a T1. The customer barely needs a /24. So we provide the customer a /24. He then announces this network to his other vendor as well as through us. If this customers routes get filtered because the company's address block isn't large enough, the only thing you are doing to placing pressure on the customer to fake the need for more IP addresses so that their network gets announced and carried by more networks. Am I the only one who thinks that such filtering policies are counter intuitive? The need to preserve IP space is at odds with the needs to hold down the size of the BPG announcements. ARIN members needs to make a choice. I don't like rules that force my customers to lie to me or suffer poor routing. /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ /* President */ /* Net Wright LLC */ /* http://www.netwright.net/ */ /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 18:35:06 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA13432 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:29:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA13337 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:29:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b5.eng.internex.net (b5.eng.internex.net [207.88.8.14]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA20597 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:29:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from skylab.eng.internex.net (skylab.eng.internex.net [207.88.8.15]) by b5.eng.internex.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA26799; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:29:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Pete Bowden Received: (from pete@localhost) by skylab.eng.internex.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA13587; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006052229.PAA13587@skylab.eng.internex.net> Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) To: hostmaster@verant.com (Hostmaster, Verant) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: vixie@mibh.net ('Paul A Vixie'), arin-discuss@arin.net ('arin-discuss@arin.net') In-Reply-To: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B01CFBBA3@mail-la.station.sony.com> from "Hostmaster, Verant" at Jun 05, 2000 02:30:57 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Not speaking on behalf of my company or any policies which may or may not exist :-) -- just to give a background on how some companies view traffic and why some providers choose to filter at the largest block size. This gets into the argument of peer vs. provider. Most peering relationships between larger ISP's require that each peer in the relationship advertise the SAME announcement everywhere where they peer. Additionally, peering relationships usually have requirements for a minimum number of locations at the public exchanges, or alternatively direct connections between the providers. "Peers" are also at times (by some providers) expected to have a sizeable number of announcements (comparable to between the 'peers'). There may be policies which restrict who some providers might concider to be peers based on the similar traffic volumes, similar number of prefixes, and the difference between the traffic flow in each direction. If you don't have a backbone sufficient to carry your own traffic and only announce regionally then some larger providers will concider that not to be a peer relationship--"why should I have to pay to carry your traffic on my backbone or purchased transit pipes" is what one might hear. Larger providers, especially, have different policies for customers than they do with peers, and pay close attention to their definition of peer. The logic is that people should always be announcing/anchoring their LARGE agregate block somewhere in case the more specifics are not accepted -- this allows them to not have to carry what they concider to be your traffic across their backbone -- even though it may be their customers which are trying to reach your server. If you don't announce your large agregates then you are risking the connectivity of parts of your network from others in the global internet. > > Our situation is that we are multihomed to a few providors at each location, > but not necessarily with a backbone-grade link between each physical > location. We do not resell connectivity, but use it all for our own > Internet application serving. > > So it's not really that irresponsible, in that we cannot just take blocks > from our providers. I know of providers that accept as small as /24s, and I > know of networks that announce /23s and /24s and have no aggregate to fall > back on. In fact in the case I described, we were able to affect a change, > which was prohibiting many cablemodem customers from accessing not only us, > but the network of a large ISP. > > But perhaps you can shed some light on the question asked by another on this > thread - why exactly would you filter on anything shorter than a /24? RAM > on your routers? CPU? On my network, I want to pick up as specific routes > (well, up to /24) as the other network wants to announce to me - chances are > I'll get a better connection using a more specific prefix. > > Follow up question - where do you come up with /20 as the magic length for > class A's and B's, but /24 for class C's? > > Additionally, ARIN is now handing out 64.0.0.0/8 in smaller blocks. Perhaps > someone on this list can speak to the smallest block being handed out in > 64.0.0.0/8. > > ---- > Dani Roisman > Verant Interactive > hostmaster@verant.com > (310) 840-8753 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul A Vixie [SMTP:vixie@mibh.net] > > Sent: Monday, June 05, 00 2:04 PM > > To: Hostmaster, Verant > > Cc: 'arin-discuss@arin.net'; Network Operations > > Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > > > Thanks for the URL... hm.. /20 and shorter only in 64/8? That's a bit > > > strict, no? We have different networks off our 64.34.128/18 block, > > which we > > > would like to announce in /21 and /22 blocks. There's a good chance we > > > won't aggregate, since the networks might each have OC3 or OC12 links to > > the > > > Internet, but in some places as slow as T1 between the two networks, and > > I > > > wouldn't want to backhaul accross the T1. > > > > that's an incredibly irresponsible way to build a net. if you're going to > > be a transit aggregator, then by all means get small blocks your providers > > and pay them extra to get cutouts. the expectation we all have when you > > get > > an address block is that you intend to advertise it, not carve it up. > > > > > Who should I contact at Verio to discuss losening the filtering policy? > > > > won't help. see http://www.mibh.net/mibh-peering.html and know that if > > you > > tried to get us to loosen it we would definitely not. there are dozens if > > not hundreds of nets running with this policy. the thing to change is > > your > > plan, not the commonly implemented route filtering policy of the whole > > 'net.. > -- Pete Bowden, Internet Network Engineer, Internet & Data Center Engineering rePete@concentric.com rePete@cncx.com pete@internex.net NIC:PB8 Concentric Network Corporation, 1400 Parkmoor Ave., San Jose, CA 95126-3429 Voice: 408-808-6010 Fax: 408-808-6010 From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 18:46:57 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA15091 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:41:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA15087 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:41:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA13179 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:41:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from randy by rip.psg.com with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12z5Yp-000J92-00; Mon, 05 Jun 2000 15:41:31 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Randy Bush To: "Mike Lieberman" Cc: Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) References: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B01CFBBA3@mail-la.station.sony.com> <001a01bfcf3d$17e23a80$fe00a9d8@SWEETNESS> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 15:41:31 -0700 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR i suggest that this has been discussed to death on the nanog mailing list, and, like other internet discussions, is repeated every six to nine months. there is little need to repeat the discussion here when you read the archives over there. my original question was merely whether arin had changed policy or whether something else was going on. it turned out that, despite ill-considered comment to the contrary, arin has not changed policy, and the apparent problem was either a bug or a communication issue between private parties. we can all go back to sleep now, learn how to [un]subscribe to internet mailing lists, and other exciting things. randy From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 19:17:42 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA16505 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:06:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA16501 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:06:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b5.eng.internex.net (b5.eng.internex.net [207.88.8.14]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA24398 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:06:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from skylab.eng.internex.net (skylab.eng.internex.net [207.88.8.15]) by b5.eng.internex.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA29394; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:06:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Pete Bowden Received: (from pete@localhost) by skylab.eng.internex.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA02104; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006052306.QAA02104@skylab.eng.internex.net> Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) To: Mike@netwright.net Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net In-Reply-To: <001a01bfcf3d$17e23a80$fe00a9d8@SWEETNESS> from "Mike Lieberman" at Jun 05, 2000 04:26:27 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Yes, but in your case you should be announcing your larger agregate... so... since your customer should still be reachable from you if the route is filtered they will not see the more specific and will see the agregate and route the block to you... you in turn will hand it over to your customer. No need for them to lie about anything.... you just need to make the case to them that this is how it works for technical reasons beyond your ability to control -- technical reasons being limiting bandwidth and other providers not feeling like they should be compelled to provide free passage of other peoples blocks. > > This conversation about filter leaves me scratching my head. > > Some of you are making a specific assumption that only large bandwidth, large > block users must multihome between various providers. While I do not argue > that this is the most common situation, it is not the only situation. > > We support one company that is currently multi-homed between two providers > and will likely be adding a third. No line is larger than a T1. The customer > barely needs a /24. So we provide the customer a /24. He then announces this > network to his other vendor as well as through us. > > If this customers routes get filtered because the company's address block > isn't large enough, the only thing you are doing to placing pressure on the > customer to fake the need for more IP addresses so that their network gets > announced and carried by more networks. Am I the only one who thinks that > such filtering policies are counter intuitive? > > The need to preserve IP space is at odds with the needs to hold down the size > of the BPG announcements. ARIN members needs to make a choice. I don't like > rules that force my customers to lie to me or suffer poor routing. > > /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ > /* President */ > /* Net Wright LLC */ > /* http://www.netwright.net/ */ > /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ > -- Pete Bowden, Internet Network Engineer, Internet & Data Center Engineering rePete@concentric.com rePete@cncx.com pete@internex.net NIC:PB8 Concentric Network Corporation, 1400 Parkmoor Ave., San Jose, CA 95126-3429 Voice: 408-808-6010 Fax: 408-808-6010 From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 19:46:40 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA17389 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:37:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA17385 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:37:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.NetWright.Net (MAIL.NETWRIGHT.NET [216.169.0.242]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA07114 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:37:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Traveler ([216.169.12.221]) by mail.NetWright.Net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53597U1000L100S0V35) with SMTP id Net; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:37:44 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Mike Lieberman" To: "'Pete Bowden'" Cc: Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:37:38 -0600 Message-ID: <000001bfcf47$09c38760$dd0ca9d8@netwright.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200006052306.QAA02104@skylab.eng.internex.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Let's start with the fact that my customer also has to be seen out the OTHER ROUTE that belongs to ANOTHER vendor. If we agregated the customer then we announce him even when his line to us is down. It has gone done once in the last year and it took the local ILEC over nine hours to fix it. His route to me MUST disappear when I am not carrying him so that all traffic will flow to the other vendor who is announcing the /24 as well. He can't afford to be down for nine hours - his line to the other Vendor has failed three times in the last years for a total out of server duration of four days - and that's Sprintlink. So indeed there is a need for him to lie so that he can get a block that will route if filters are going to drop him. /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ /* President */ /* Net Wright LLC */ /* http://www.netwright.net */ /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ > -----Original Message----- > From: Pete Bowden [mailto:repete@cncx.com] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 5:06 PM > To: Mike@netwright.net > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net > Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > Yes, but in your case you should be announcing your larger agregate... > so... since your customer should still be reachable from you > if the route > is filtered they will not see the more specific and will see > the agregate > and route the block to you... you in turn will hand it over > to your customer. > No need for them to lie about anything.... you just need to > make the case to > them that this is how it works for technical reasons beyond > your ability to > control -- technical reasons being limiting bandwidth and > other providers > not feeling like they should be compelled to provide free > passage of other > peoples blocks. > > > > > This conversation about filter leaves me scratching my head. > > > > Some of you are making a specific assumption that only > large bandwidth, large > > block users must multihome between various providers. While > I do not argue > > that this is the most common situation, it is not the only > situation. > > > > We support one company that is currently multi-homed > between two providers > > and will likely be adding a third. No line is larger than a > T1. The customer > > barely needs a /24. So we provide the customer a /24. He > then announces this > > network to his other vendor as well as through us. > > > > If this customers routes get filtered because the company's > address block > > isn't large enough, the only thing you are doing to placing > pressure on the > > customer to fake the need for more IP addresses so that > their network gets > > announced and carried by more networks. Am I the only one > who thinks that > > such filtering policies are counter intuitive? > > > > The need to preserve IP space is at odds with the needs to > hold down the size > > of the BPG announcements. ARIN members needs to make a > choice. I don't like > > rules that force my customers to lie to me or suffer poor routing. > > > > /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ > > /* President */ > > /* Net Wright LLC */ > > /* http://www.netwright.net/ */ > > /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ > > > > > -- > Pete Bowden, Internet Network Engineer, Internet & Data > Center Engineering > rePete@concentric.com rePete@cncx.com pete@internex.net NIC:PB8 > Concentric Network Corporation, 1400 Parkmoor Ave., San Jose, > CA 95126-3429 > Voice: 408-808-6010 Fax: 408-808-6010 > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 20:30:47 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA19175 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:21:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA19171 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:21:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b5.eng.internex.net (b5.eng.internex.net [207.88.8.14]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA28634 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:21:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from skylab.eng.internex.net (skylab.eng.internex.net [207.88.8.15]) by b5.eng.internex.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA03829; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:21:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Pete Bowden Received: (from pete@localhost) by skylab.eng.internex.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA08480; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006060021.RAA08480@skylab.eng.internex.net> Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) To: Mike@netwright.net Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net In-Reply-To: <000001bfcf47$09c38760$dd0ca9d8@netwright.net> from "Mike Lieberman" at Jun 05, 2000 05:37:38 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR A customer that has a /24 from you will have a hard time justifying a /20 or 21 to ARIN. You're right, in the case of a failure, there may be issues... and ARIN doesn't guarantee that routes of any size will be announced or accepted anywhere on the net. If you are willing to accept your own announcements from others then you might still have a route to your customer when your circuit goes down via their other provider... that's your choice... Announcing the entire internet as /24's just isn't scaleable, and the needs of the large players are sometimes at odds with the desires of smaller providers or collocation/server/hosting providers -- who are more likely to make that sale on the type of one-off or exception, where many of the larger players will just say that they can't guarantee that a dual homed connection will work in the case of either providers circuit failing. > > Let's start with the fact that my customer also has to be seen out the OTHER > ROUTE that belongs to ANOTHER vendor. If we agregated the customer then we > announce him even when his line to us is down. It has gone done once in the > last year and it took the local ILEC over nine hours to fix it. His route to > me MUST disappear when I am not carrying him so that all traffic will flow > to the other vendor who is announcing the /24 as well. > > He can't afford to be down for nine hours - his line to the other Vendor has > failed three times in the last years for a total out of server duration of > four days - and that's Sprintlink. > > So indeed there is a need for him to lie so that he can get a block that > will route if filters are going to drop him. > > /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ > /* President */ > /* Net Wright LLC */ > /* http://www.netwright.net */ > /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Pete Bowden [mailto:repete@cncx.com] > > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 5:06 PM > > To: Mike@netwright.net > > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net > > Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > > > > Yes, but in your case you should be announcing your larger agregate... > > so... since your customer should still be reachable from you > > if the route > > is filtered they will not see the more specific and will see > > the agregate > > and route the block to you... you in turn will hand it over > > to your customer. > > No need for them to lie about anything.... you just need to > > make the case to > > them that this is how it works for technical reasons beyond > > your ability to > > control -- technical reasons being limiting bandwidth and > > other providers > > not feeling like they should be compelled to provide free > > passage of other > > peoples blocks. > > > > > > > > This conversation about filter leaves me scratching my head. > > > > > > Some of you are making a specific assumption that only > > large bandwidth, large > > > block users must multihome between various providers. While > > I do not argue > > > that this is the most common situation, it is not the only > > situation. > > > > > > We support one company that is currently multi-homed > > between two providers > > > and will likely be adding a third. No line is larger than a > > T1. The customer > > > barely needs a /24. So we provide the customer a /24. He > > then announces this > > > network to his other vendor as well as through us. > > > > > > If this customers routes get filtered because the company's > > address block > > > isn't large enough, the only thing you are doing to placing > > pressure on the > > > customer to fake the need for more IP addresses so that > > their network gets > > > announced and carried by more networks. Am I the only one > > who thinks that > > > such filtering policies are counter intuitive? > > > > > > The need to preserve IP space is at odds with the needs to > > hold down the size > > > of the BPG announcements. ARIN members needs to make a > > choice. I don't like > > > rules that force my customers to lie to me or suffer poor routing. > > > > > > /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ > > > /* President */ > > > /* Net Wright LLC */ > > > /* http://www.netwright.net/ */ > > > /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ > > > > > > > > > -- > > Pete Bowden, Internet Network Engineer, Internet & Data > > Center Engineering > > rePete@concentric.com rePete@cncx.com pete@internex.net NIC:PB8 > > Concentric Network Corporation, 1400 Parkmoor Ave., San Jose, > > CA 95126-3429 > > Voice: 408-808-6010 Fax: 408-808-6010 > > > -- Pete Bowden, Internet Network Engineer, Internet & Data Center Engineering rePete@concentric.com rePete@cncx.com pete@internex.net NIC:PB8 Concentric Network Corporation, 1400 Parkmoor Ave., San Jose, CA 95126-3429 Voice: 408-808-6010 Fax: 408-808-6010 From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 20:46:15 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA19714 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:37:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA19710 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:37:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.NetWright.Net (MAIL.NETWRIGHT.NET [216.169.0.242]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA26852 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:37:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Traveler ([216.169.12.221]) by mail.NetWright.Net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53597U1000L100S0V35) with SMTP id Net; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:37:25 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Mike Lieberman" To: "'Pete Bowden'" Cc: Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:37:21 -0600 Message-ID: <000101bfcf4f$61351ce0$dd0ca9d8@netwright.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200006060021.RAA08480@skylab.eng.internex.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR In the cases we deal with it's an essential requirement for these companies. Lines in our neck of the world are unreliable and unless the customer falsifies a need for more IP we need to find a way to make this work. I am not saying that we shouldn't aggregate whenever possible. To suggest that /24 need to be routed, doesn't equate to we should route everything as a /24. To make such an argument doesn't serve the purpose of discussion. >Announcing the entire internet as /24's just isn't scaleable There are legitimate needs to be able to fully route a /24 on occasion and to say, well that's just the say it is, makes companies lie so that they can get the /20 that will route. These are not necessarily small companies by annual revenues. They just don't have a need for more than a /24. The policies of the large vendors who insist on filtering, do more to serve the business objectives of those vendors, than they do to protect the scalability of the Internet. /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ /* President */ /* Net Wright LLC */ /* http://www.netwright.net */ /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ > -----Original Message----- > From: Pete Bowden [mailto:repete@cncx.com] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 6:21 PM > To: Mike@netwright.net > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net > Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > A customer that has a /24 from you will have a hard time > justifying a /20 or > 21 to ARIN. You're right, in the case of a failure, there > may be issues... > and ARIN doesn't guarantee that routes of any size will be > announced or > accepted anywhere on the net. If you are willing to accept your own > announcements from others then you might still have a route > to your customer > when your circuit goes down via their other provider... that's your > choice... Announcing the entire internet as /24's just isn't > scaleable, and > the needs of the large players are sometimes at odds with the > desires of > smaller providers or collocation/server/hosting providers -- > who are more > likely to make that sale on the type of one-off or exception, > where many of > the larger players will just say that they can't guarantee > that a dual homed > connection will work in the case of either providers circuit > failing. > > > > > Let's start with the fact that my customer also has to be > seen out the OTHER > > ROUTE that belongs to ANOTHER vendor. If we agregated the > customer then we > > announce him even when his line to us is down. It has gone > done once in the > > last year and it took the local ILEC over nine hours to fix > it. His route to > > me MUST disappear when I am not carrying him so that all > traffic will flow > > to the other vendor who is announcing the /24 as well. > > > > He can't afford to be down for nine hours - his line to the > other Vendor has > > failed three times in the last years for a total out of > server duration of > > four days - and that's Sprintlink. > > > > So indeed there is a need for him to lie so that he can get > a block that > > will route if filters are going to drop him. > > > > /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ > > /* President */ > > /* Net Wright LLC */ > > /* http://www.netwright.net */ > > /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Pete Bowden [mailto:repete@cncx.com] > > > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 5:06 PM > > > To: Mike@netwright.net > > > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net > > > Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > > > > > > > Yes, but in your case you should be announcing your > larger agregate... > > > so... since your customer should still be reachable from you > > > if the route > > > is filtered they will not see the more specific and will see > > > the agregate > > > and route the block to you... you in turn will hand it over > > > to your customer. > > > No need for them to lie about anything.... you just need to > > > make the case to > > > them that this is how it works for technical reasons beyond > > > your ability to > > > control -- technical reasons being limiting bandwidth and > > > other providers > > > not feeling like they should be compelled to provide free > > > passage of other > > > peoples blocks. > > > > > > > > > > > This conversation about filter leaves me scratching my head. > > > > > > > > Some of you are making a specific assumption that only > > > large bandwidth, large > > > > block users must multihome between various providers. While > > > I do not argue > > > > that this is the most common situation, it is not the only > > > situation. > > > > > > > > We support one company that is currently multi-homed > > > between two providers > > > > and will likely be adding a third. No line is larger than a > > > T1. The customer > > > > barely needs a /24. So we provide the customer a /24. He > > > then announces this > > > > network to his other vendor as well as through us. > > > > > > > > If this customers routes get filtered because the company's > > > address block > > > > isn't large enough, the only thing you are doing to placing > > > pressure on the > > > > customer to fake the need for more IP addresses so that > > > their network gets > > > > announced and carried by more networks. Am I the only one > > > who thinks that > > > > such filtering policies are counter intuitive? > > > > > > > > The need to preserve IP space is at odds with the needs to > > > hold down the size > > > > of the BPG announcements. ARIN members needs to make a > > > choice. I don't like > > > > rules that force my customers to lie to me or suffer > poor routing. > > > > > > > > /* Mike Lieberman > Mike@NetWright.Net */ > > > > /* President > */ > > > > /* Net Wright LLC > */ > > > > /* http://www.netwright.net/ > */ > > > > /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 > */ > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Pete Bowden, Internet Network Engineer, Internet & Data > > > Center Engineering > > > rePete@concentric.com rePete@cncx.com > pete@internex.net NIC:PB8 > > > Concentric Network Corporation, 1400 Parkmoor Ave., San Jose, > > > CA 95126-3429 > > > Voice: 408-808-6010 Fax: 408-808-6010 > > > > > > > > -- > Pete Bowden, Internet Network Engineer, Internet & Data > Center Engineering > rePete@concentric.com rePete@cncx.com pete@internex.net NIC:PB8 > Concentric Network Corporation, 1400 Parkmoor Ave., San Jose, > CA 95126-3429 > Voice: 408-808-6010 Fax: 408-808-6010 > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 21:10:36 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA20452 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:01:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA20447 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:01:04 -0400 (EDT) From: cjw@remarque.org Received: from pox.remarque.org (pox.remarque.org [209.209.13.172]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA05440 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:01:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pox.remarque.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pox.remarque.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA01610; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:59:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006060059.RAA01610@pox.remarque.org> To: Mike@netwright.net cc: "'Pete Bowden'" , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 18:37:21 MDT." <000101bfcf4f$61351ce0$dd0ca9d8@netwright.net> Reply-to: cjw@remarque.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1607.960253185.1@pox.remarque.org> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:59:45 -0700 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Mike, I hesitate to participate in this discussion because it has been beaten to death over and over again. But since I am on the ARIN Advisory Council and this is one of the things that we are trying to deal with, I have some questions for you. >Announcing the entire internet as /24's just isn't scaleable There are legitimate needs to be able to fully route a /24 on occasion and to say, well that's just the say it is, makes companies lie so that they can get the /20 that will route. How would you define exactly how to identify one of these organizations? One of the issues being dealt with by ARIN and the other registries is how to determine who has a legitimate need and who doesn't. Further when we can determine who has a legitimate need, then we could actually determine how many there might be and what the impact on the routing table would be. For example, ARIN would start seeing requests for people like me who have a sizable network in their home and want redundancy. Should I get a globally routable /24? My home network is important. (at least I think it is) What if I need a /28? Should that be routed as well? These are not necessarily small companies by annual revenues. They just don't have a need for more than a /24. The policies of the large vendors who insist on filtering, do more to serve the business objectives of those vendors, than they do to protect the scalability of the Internet. Most of the folks I know who filter do it to keep their networks working and for no other reason. Thanks for your input. ---CJ From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 21:40:06 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA21097 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:31:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA21093 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:31:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-la.station.sony.com (mail-la.station.sony.com [209.0.234.32]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA17476 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:31:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-la.station.sony.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:31:28 -0700 Message-ID: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B01CFBBB1@mail-la.station.sony.com> From: "Hostmaster, Verant" To: "'Charles Winter'" Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:31:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR I understand what you are saying, and I could accept it and be on my way if this was the consistent message from all. But there are many major ISPs that will accept any /24 and shorter. Why some would filter and many others would not does not make sense. The 78K routes on my router take up 13MB of space. Again, I can understand filtering some of the older class A's and B's, where it truley is a case of ISPs that lease pieces of their network space to customers, and an aggregate route is usually all that's needed to get to their customers efficiently. But in the case of 24.*.*.* and 64.*.*.*, where smaller blocks are given out. I'm looking through my bgp tables, and see hundreds of routes that are longer than /20 in both. One question has still not been answered is - what is the smallest block of 64/8 that ARIN will assign? But really my main point is - if many large ISPs are willing to simply accept all /24 and shorter, why won't the others that are in the minority follow suit? ---- Dani Roisman Verant Interactive hostmaster@verant.com (310) 840-8753 > -----Original Message----- > From: cwinter@communicationnation.com > [SMTP:cwinter@communicationnation.com] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 00 3:18 PM > To: Hostmaster, Verant; 'Paul A Vixie' > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net; Brent Walters; Joe Murray > Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > Dani, > > At present there are about 40,000 some-odd CIDR routes being propagated. > This takes just shy of 64meg. on a Cisco router - you can go to a publicly > available route server to check this out - so we all order border routers > with a minimum of 128 Meg. If no agriagation was done, it would be very > easy > to exceed the maximum available memory a Cisco router can handle - at > present 256Meg. It does not take a lot of CPU to forward and receive route > updates. > > EBGP - Exterior BGP (vs. IntereiorBGP) does not like to announce subnetted > /24 - thank goodness. Good policy is to aggrigate as much as possible, and > this is the force driving Router Arbiter Data Bases. To try to keep the > Internet from "flyingh apart" as one company put it. > > A /20 is the smallest usuall allocation ARIN will make - there are a few > exceptions ... > > Charles Winter > cwinter@communicationnation.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Hostmaster, Verant > To: 'Paul A Vixie' > Cc: > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 2:30 PM > Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > > Our situation is that we are multihomed to a few providors at each > location, > > but not necessarily with a backbone-grade link between each physical > > location. We do not resell connectivity, but use it all for our own > > Internet application serving. > > > > So it's not really that irresponsible, in that we cannot just take > blocks > > from our providers. I know of providers that accept as small as /24s, > and > I > > know of networks that announce /23s and /24s and have no aggregate to > fall > > back on. In fact in the case I described, we were able to affect a > change, > > which was prohibiting many cablemodem customers from accessing not only > us, > > but the network of a large ISP. > > > > But perhaps you can shed some light on the question asked by another on > this > > thread - why exactly would you filter on anything shorter than a /24? > RAM > > on your routers? CPU? On my network, I want to pick up as specific > routes > > (well, up to /24) as the other network wants to announce to me - chances > are > > I'll get a better connection using a more specific prefix. > > > > Follow up question - where do you come up with /20 as the magic length > for > > class A's and B's, but /24 for class C's? > > > > Additionally, ARIN is now handing out 64.0.0.0/8 in smaller blocks. > Perhaps > > someone on this list can speak to the smallest block being handed out in > > 64.0.0.0/8. > > > > ---- > > Dani Roisman > > Verant Interactive > > hostmaster@verant.com > > (310) 840-8753 > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Paul A Vixie [SMTP:vixie@mibh.net] > > > Sent: Monday, June 05, 00 2:04 PM > > > To: Hostmaster, Verant > > > Cc: 'arin-discuss@arin.net'; Network Operations > > > Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > > > > > Thanks for the URL... hm.. /20 and shorter only in 64/8? That's a > bit > > > > strict, no? We have different networks off our 64.34.128/18 block, > > > which we > > > > would like to announce in /21 and /22 blocks. There's a good chance > we > > > > won't aggregate, since the networks might each have OC3 or OC12 > links > to > > > the > > > > Internet, but in some places as slow as T1 between the two networks, > and > > > I > > > > wouldn't want to backhaul accross the T1. > > > > > > that's an incredibly irresponsible way to build a net. if you're > going > to > > > be a transit aggregator, then by all means get small blocks your > providers > > > and pay them extra to get cutouts. the expectation we all have when > you > > > get > > > an address block is that you intend to advertise it, not carve it up. > > > > > > > Who should I contact at Verio to discuss losening the filtering > policy? > > > > > > won't help. see http://www.mibh.net/mibh-peering.html and know that > if > > > you > > > tried to get us to loosen it we would definitely not. there are > dozens > if > > > not hundreds of nets running with this policy. the thing to change is > > > your > > > plan, not the commonly implemented route filtering policy of the whole > > > 'net. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 22:25:35 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id WAA23789 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:16:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA23781 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:16:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.NetWright.Net (MAIL.NETWRIGHT.NET [216.169.0.242]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA04088 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:16:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Traveler ([216.169.12.221]) by mail.NetWright.Net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53597U1000L100S0V35) with SMTP id Net; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:16:29 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Mike Lieberman" To: "'Pete Bowden'" , Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:16:26 -0600 Message-ID: <000301bfcf5d$38a663c0$dd0ca9d8@netwright.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200006060059.RAA01610@pox.remarque.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR > Mike, > > I hesitate to participate in this discussion because it has > been beaten to death over and over again. But since I am on > the ARIN Advisory Council and this is one of the things that > we are trying to deal with, I have some questions for you. > > >Announcing the entire internet as /24's just isn't scaleable > > There are legitimate needs to be able to fully route a > /24 on occasion and > to say, well that's just the say it is, makes companies > lie so that they can > get the /20 that will route. > > How would you define exactly how to identify one of these > organizations? Look I understand the frustration you are all having with this... but let's say ARIN sells /24's for $2.500/yr. You really need it for your home now? You need a router and bandwidth capable of full BGP. Vendors who will take your BGP. You're not going to use ISDN, cable modems, xDSL or a inexpensive router. The cost alone if structured correctly can provide a reasonable self-selective system by which most networks won't want the costs or the hassles. I actually attended a meeting as a consultant to a company that will go unnamed. They have a /21 and there was a disussion about putting everything behind a firewall and using private IP. The head of their IT group pointed out that they would lose their ability to router their network as they were doing via BGP and would put the company at risk. That was the end of the discussion. Like I said early on in this discussion. You have two competing needs. Address space and routing tables. By not making a rational choice, you simple produce decisions that have adverse impacts. I think you need to say OK, if have multiple paths, the right router, you are willing to pay, then you get X address space and that WILL route, whether you need that much space or not. Set it low enough so that you can live with the waste and high enough so that tables don't break for the few who will pay for it(I think a /24 fits if the cost to get it is high enough). And then don't make the user justify the network need for the size of the block. The only justifaction comes if the request if for more numbers. > One of the issues being dealt with by ARIN and the other registries > is how to determine who has a legitimate need and who doesn't. Further > when we can determine who has a legitimate need, then we > could actually > determine how many there might be and what the impact on the routing > table would be. For example, ARIN would start seeing requests for > people like me who have a sizable network in their home and want > redundancy. Should I get a globally routable /24? My home network > is important. (at least I think it is) What if I need a /28? Should > that be routed as well? > > These are not necessarily small companies by annual > revenues. They just > don't have a need for more than a /24. The policies of > the large vendors who > insist on filtering, do more to serve the business > objectives of those > vendors, than they do to protect the scalability of the Internet. > > Most of the folks I know who filter do it to keep their networks > working and for no other reason. > > Thanks for your input. > ---CJ > /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ /* President */ /* Net Wright LLC */ /* http://www.netwright.net */ /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 23:10:41 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id XAA01294 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:02:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA01290 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:02:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.NetWright.Net (MAIL.NETWRIGHT.NET [216.169.0.242]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA21792 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:02:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Traveler ([216.169.12.221]) by mail.NetWright.Net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53597U1000L100S0V35) with SMTP id Net; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:02:01 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Mike Lieberman" To: Cc: Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:01:53 -0600 Message-ID: <000401bfcf63$91efff80$dd0ca9d8@netwright.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200006060232.TAA02375@pox.remarque.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR > > Mike, > > Thanks for your response. Note that it isn't necessarily true > that I have to have full internet routes on my router at home > in order to inject a /24 via BGP to two upstream providers. Yes I'm aware of this, but it is possible to limit this discussion to those networks that DO have that need. Others can limp along as they do now. > > Note also that ARIN cannot guarantee that any block assigned > is filtered or not filtered. ISPs set their own policies. > Those policies have up to this point been modified as ARIN > and other registries have changed their allocation policies > but there is no guarantee that that will continue to be the > case. There was a point in my not so distant past, where > the filtering policies of one very large ISP were not consistent > with ARIN policies and it made my address space unusable (and > we had much more than a /21) I understand this as well. The policies of various RRs can make for a frustrating time. Still most of that can be worked through. > > How many requests would be generated if, say, we say any > organization that meets your requirements below gets a /24? I think you already have them, they just have /21's right now :-) Further if you did a buy back program for those who have swamp addresses and could aggregate with new addresses and use the money you get from the sale of the /24's to support that, you might actually get more /24's back than you have to sell. > I suspect that you will get many many more than a "few". I > could be wrong, but the issue for ARIN and the other registries > is that the take rate for some of these things is not determinable. > Further once the policy is changed, it is almost impossible to > change it back. So, do the buy back first and limit the new /24's to the number of /24's you recoup. Then there's no harm done. > On average how many connections do you think that these folks > would have? (paths matter) > Well that gets hard to figure. Our customer is looking at going from two to three or four. We just about signed a contract with another company earlier this year that would have had three paths. > Thanks, > ---CJ > > Ps. and yes I might be interested in one of those /24s for my > house. > Yeh, well would you accept the proposition that we are not the normal net user? I had two T1s to my house when your local community college had a 56K lease line. > > From: "Mike Lieberman" > Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > Mike, > > > > I hesitate to participate in this discussion because it has > > been beaten to death over and over again. But since I am on > > the ARIN Advisory Council and this is one of the things that > > we are trying to deal with, I have some questions for you. > > > > >Announcing the entire internet as /24's just isn't > scaleable > > > > There are legitimate needs to be able to fully route a > > /24 on occasion and > > to say, well that's just the say it is, makes companies > > lie so that they can > > get the /20 that will route. > > > > How would you define exactly how to identify one of these > > organizations? > > Look I understand the frustration you are all having with > this... but let's > say ARIN sells /24's for $2.500/yr. You really need it > for your home now? > > You need a router and bandwidth capable of full BGP. > Vendors who will take > your BGP. You're not going to use ISDN, cable modems, > xDSL or a inexpensive > router. The cost alone if structured correctly can > provide a reasonable > self-selective system by which most networks won't want > the costs or the > hassles. > > I actually attended a meeting as a consultant to a > company that will go > unnamed. They have a /21 and there was a disussion about > putting everything > behind a firewall and using private IP. The head of their > IT group pointed > out that they would lose their ability to router their > network as they were > doing via BGP and would put the company at risk. That was > the end of the > discussion. Like I said early on in this discussion. You > have two competing > needs. Address space and routing tables. By not making a > rational choice, > you simple produce decisions that have adverse impacts. > > I think you need to say OK, if have multiple paths, the > right router, you > are willing to pay, then you get X address space and that > WILL route, > whether you need that much space or not. Set it low > enough so that you can > live with the waste and high enough so that tables don't > break for the few > who will pay for it(I think a /24 fits if the cost to get > it is high > enough). And then don't make the user justify the network > need for the size > of the block. The only justifaction comes if the request > if for more > numbers. > > > One of the issues being dealt with by ARIN and the > other registries > > is how to determine who has a legitimate need and who > doesn't. Further > > when we can determine who has a legitimate need, then we > > could actually > > determine how many there might be and what the impact > on the routing > > table would be. For example, ARIN would start seeing > requests for > > people like me who have a sizable network in their home and want > > redundancy. Should I get a globally routable /24? My > home network > > is important. (at least I think it is) What if I need > a /28? Should > > that be routed as well? > > > > These are not necessarily small companies by annual > > revenues. They just > > don't have a need for more than a /24. The policies of > > the large vendors who > > insist on filtering, do more to serve the business > > objectives of those > > vendors, than they do to protect the scalability of > the Internet. > > > > Most of the folks I know who filter do it to keep their networks > > working and for no other reason. > > > > Thanks for your input. > > ---CJ > > > > > > /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ > /* President */ > /* Net Wright LLC */ > /* http://www.netwright.net */ > /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ > > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 23:23:16 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id XAA03319 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:14:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA03315 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:14:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from knight.uni.onramp.ca (knight.uni.onramp.ca [198.161.182.8]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA15297 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:14:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 28858 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2000 03:14:35 -0000 Received: from ppopper.dialup.onramp.ca (HELO lhm12.tor.onramp.ca) (199.246.72.134) by smtp.onramp.ca with SMTP; 6 Jun 2000 03:14:35 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000605224901.00aa0e40@pop.tor.onramp.ca> X-Sender: ppqmt@pop.tor.onramp.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:14:32 -0400 To: From: Paul Popper Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Cc: In-Reply-To: <000301bfcf5d$38a663c0$dd0ca9d8@netwright.net> References: <200006060059.RAA01610@pox.remarque.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR At 10:16 PM 6/5/00, Mike Lieberman wrote: >... >Look I understand the frustration you are all having with this... but let's >say ARIN sells /24's for $2.500/yr. You really need it for your home now? >... >I think you need to say OK, if have multiple paths, the right router, you >are willing to pay, then you get X address space and that WILL route, >whether you need that much space or not. Set it low enough so that you can >live with the waste and high enough so that tables don't break for the few >who will pay for it(I think a /24 fits if the cost to get it is high >enough). And then don't make the user justify the network need for the size >of the block. The only justifaction comes if the request if for more >numbers. Yes, the scarce resource, i.e. the implied BGP table usage, should be paid for by its consumer. I strongly agree that ARIN should start selling those /24s that are unlikely to be filtered for a price that strikes the kind of balance Mike describes. This will both increase Internet reliability and likely reduce ip space wastage. Paul. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jun 5 23:54:52 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id XAA07916 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:46:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA07912 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:46:05 -0400 (EDT) From: cjw@remarque.org Received: from pox.remarque.org (pox.remarque.org [209.209.13.172]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA08124 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:46:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pox.remarque.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pox.remarque.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA02690; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:46:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006060346.UAA02690@pox.remarque.org> To: Mike@netwright.net cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 21:01:53 MDT." <000401bfcf63$91efff80$dd0ca9d8@netwright.net> Reply-to: cjw@remarque.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2687.960263161.1@pox.remarque.org> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 20:46:02 -0700 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR From: "Mike Lieberman" Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > Mike, > > Thanks for your response. Note that it isn't necessarily true > that I have to have full internet routes on my router at home > in order to inject a /24 via BGP to two upstream providers. Yes I'm aware of this, but it is possible to limit this discussion to those networks that DO have that need. Others can limp along as they do now. Sure if you can define who really has the need and criteria that can be used to determine one from another. I know of a number of companies that need to be multihomed that have no requirement for full BGP tables in their routers. > > How many requests would be generated if, say, we say any > organization that meets your requirements below gets a /24? I think you already have them, they just have /21's right now :-) Further if you did a buy back program for those who have swamp addresses and could aggregate with new addresses and use the money you get from the sale of the /24's to support that, you might actually get more /24's back than you have to sell. > I suspect that you will get many many more than a "few". I > could be wrong, but the issue for ARIN and the other registries > is that the take rate for some of these things is not determinable. > Further once the policy is changed, it is almost impossible to > change it back. So, do the buy back first and limit the new /24's to the number of /24's you recoup. Then there's no harm done. I doubt that the registries will be able to recoup much if any swamp space. THat is another issue all together. I also think that there are a lot more folks who will apply for this space than you think. Swamp folks have no requirement to apply since they have what they want. Again, it all comes down to coming up with criteria that will allow the registries to assess who gets them and who doesnt. From that we can get some idea of how many there might be assigned and then we will have to work with the community (including ISPs) to determine whether doing it will be good for the network as a whole. The registries have to have a policy that can be written down and applied fairly. They can't just pick who has a need on the fly. > > Ps. and yes I might be interested in one of those /24s for my > house. > Yeh, well would you accept the proposition that we are not the normal net user? I had two T1s to my house when your local community college had a 56K lease line. Maybe not, but my point is that everyone thinks that their connection and their application is critical and has to be redundant and have whatever that requires. A lot more than you think will probably pay. There are webhosting sites (should we give them portable /32s? ) These are the issues that we are facing. Opening the flood gates without some careful analysis of who gets the space and what it will do to the internet as a whole, is not a good idea. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Jun 6 00:23:08 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id AAA21910 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:14:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id AAA21900 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:14:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.NetWright.Net (MAIL.NETWRIGHT.NET [216.169.0.242]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA29564 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:14:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Traveler ([216.169.12.221]) by mail.NetWright.Net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53597U1000L100S0V35) with SMTP id Net; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:14:32 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Mike Lieberman" To: Cc: Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:14:29 -0600 Message-ID: <000501bfcf6d$b619eb00$dd0ca9d8@netwright.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200006060346.UAA02690@pox.remarque.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR > -----Original Message----- > From: cjw@remarque.org [mailto:cjw@remarque.org] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:46 PM > To: Mike@netwright.net > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net > Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > From: "Mike Lieberman" > Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) > > > > Mike, > > > > Thanks for your response. Note that it isn't necessarily true > > that I have to have full internet routes on my router at home > > in order to inject a /24 via BGP to two upstream providers. > > Yes I'm aware of this, but it is possible to limit this > discussion to those > networks that DO have that need. Others can limp along as > they do now. > > Sure if you can define who really has the need and criteria that > can be used to determine one from another. I know of a number of > companies that need to be multihomed that have no requirement > for full BGP tables in their routers. I don't have to define that. You keep on trying to place the decision making within ARIN and I am arguing for a market approach where you don't need to apply the criteria. Assume the applicant WILL fully route. If the applicant doesn't where's the foul? > > > > > How many requests would be generated if, say, we say any > > organization that meets your requirements below gets a /24? > > I think you already have them, they just have /21's right > now :-) Further if > you did a buy back program for those who have swamp > addresses and could > aggregate with new addresses and use the money you get > from the sale of the > /24's to support that, you might actually get more /24's > back than you have > to sell. > > > I suspect that you will get many many more than a "few". I > > could be wrong, but the issue for ARIN and the other registries > > is that the take rate for some of these things is not > determinable. > > Further once the policy is changed, it is almost impossible to > > change it back. > > So, do the buy back first and limit the new /24's to the > number of /24's you > recoup. Then there's no harm done. > > I doubt that the registries will be able to recoup much if any swamp > space. THat is another issue all together. I also think that there > are a lot more folks who will apply for this space than you think. > Swamp folks have no requirement to apply since they have what they > want. Again, it all comes down to coming up with criteria that will > allow the registries to assess who gets them and who doesnt. From > that we can get some idea of how many there might be assigned and > then we will have to work with the community (including ISPs) to > determine whether doing it will be good for the network as a whole. It's hard to discuss other than to say I disagree. Make it worth enough to companies to trade in the swamp space and companies will. I don't mean to offend, but I just have to ask? Have you ever run a true commercial enterprise? Not just work for one? I have no doubt that the swamp space can be reclaimed at least in part. > > The registries have to have a policy that can be written down and > applied fairly. They can't just pick who has a need on the fly. Never suggested otherwise. Right now the rules are arbitrary and tilt to certain types of companies over others. That is the complaint. Things are not fair now. > > > > Ps. and yes I might be interested in one of those /24s for my > > house. > > > > Yeh, well would you accept the proposition that we are > not the normal net > user? > I had two T1s to my house when your local community > college had a 56K lease > line. > > Maybe not, but my point is that everyone thinks that their connection > and their application is critical and has to be redundant and have > whatever that requires. And who are you or me to say otherwise. This continues to be my point. You are laying values on others right now. > A lot more than you think will probably pay. I don't think you have any clue how much this is worth to some companies. > There are webhosting sites (should we give them portable /32s? ) > These are the issues that we are facing. Opening the flood gates > without some careful analysis of who gets the space and what it > will do to the internet as a whole, is not a good idea. > I suggest /24 and you come back with a facetious /32. Why? Are the sacred cows at risk? You know damned well that web hosting sites are just that, sites of hundreds of web sites on one network. We are talking about networks. Such arguments are not helpful in the development of sound public policy. /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ /* President */ /* Net Wright LLC */ /* http://www.netwright.net */ /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Jun 6 00:40:10 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id AAA23666 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:31:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id AAA23626 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA24237 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:31:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from freeside.fc.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA23658; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:28:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200006060428.XAA23658@freeside.fc.net> To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com cc: John.Sweeting@cwusa.com (Sweeting John), arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: split b In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 10:37:55 PDT." <200006051737.KAA02756@vacation.karoshi.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:28:44 -0500 From: Jeremy Porter Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR In message <200006051737.KAA02756@vacation.karoshi.com>, bmanning@vacation.karo shi.com writes: >> The problem becomes then, assuming ARIN did approve the rejustification, >> that there is no mechanism at ARIN or elsewhere to provide notifications >> of current "delegation models" which inidicate what size blocks are >> allocated out of what size ranges. ARIN does operate a Routing Registry >> in which this information could be stored programaticlly which could >> be queried programaticly or manually to check BGP announcements v. >> RIR assignment or allocation. > > ARINs use of registry technology post-dates this split. > One presumes that Mr. Bush pulled the relevent information > from the ARIN routing registry via whois. ARIN's use of "registry technology" i.e. the whois database? Their impelementation of a routing registry post dates it, but whois has been around for quite a while. I was only suggesting that a techical solution utilizing the ARIN Routing Registry might allow Randy to accomplish what he wants while allowing for a programatic way to generate his filters, as opposed to periodic emails from the various RIR with the lists of what is allocated where. >> I believe Randy is correct in his opinion that no policy decision was >> made with regard to making assignments out of "Classic B Space" of a >> prefix size of /17. (Which is what happened). However it seems clear >> to me that ARIN polices and guidelines allow for this to happen >> under the circumstances described. Thus it is important that >> we take this into consideration. > > Well, I beg to differ. A policy decision was made and the > split was done. This may have been done as a "one-off" but > it does provide a prior-use argument for future splits > to occur. I agree that existant ARIN policy (as I understand it) > will allow such splits to occur. Perhaps ISPs would begin > to realize that a blanket summarization of filtering is prone > to many errors, esp. due to historical delegations and policy > considerations that are now OBE but have been grandfathered in. > A policy decision here would imply that the ARIN Advisory Council voted on this, and I don't recall any such vote. The ARIN AC is specificly empowered to do this, but then we agree that we don't see any specific reason that would prevent this from reoccuring, and my suggestion of using the routing registries, or dns, or any such online database to store the policy info, would enable Randy and others to setup their filters in a way that reflects actual policy as opposed to blacket summarization which is prone to "error". I don't see this has a precedent for any "grandfathered" allocations. The only thing that has been grandfathered is the specific assignment was not required to be re-justified, until the split. I hate to say it Bill, but your agenda seems to be leaking through at least as much as Randy's. --- jerry@fc.net Director Network Operations/Network Engineering, Wayport, Inc. 512-519-6193 www.wayport.net 8303 Mopac Expressway Suite A300, Austin Tx. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Jun 6 01:40:47 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id BAA00680 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:33:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id BAA00676 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:33:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elektra.ultra.net (elektra.ultra.net [146.115.9.13]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA13109 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:33:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from u-steve@localhost) by elektra.ultra.net (8.8.8/ult.n26500) id BAA02158; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:33:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200006060533.BAA02158@elektra.ultra.net> Subject: Re: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) In-Reply-To: <000301bfcf5d$38a663c0$dd0ca9d8@netwright.net> from Mike Lieberman at "Jun 5, 2000 08:16:26 pm" To: Mike@netwright.net Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:33:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Griffin Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL51 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR In the referenced message, Mike Lieberman said: > > > Mike, > > > > How would you define exactly how to identify one of these > > organizations? > > Look I understand the frustration you are all having with this... but let's > say ARIN sells /24's for $2.500/yr. You really need it for your home now? Selling address space would be a _bad_ thing. Charging money to cover allocation record-keeping is fine, since it doesn't convey "ownership". We've already seen the perils with turning things into commodities (cf the domain naming system). > You need a router and bandwidth capable of full BGP. Vendors who will take > your BGP. You're not going to use ISDN, cable modems, xDSL or a inexpensive > router. The cost alone if structured correctly can provide a reasonable > self-selective system by which most networks won't want the costs or the > hassles. The costs of a cisco 25XX (which could handle 2 scaled-down bgp sessions quite happily), 2 modems, and 2 phone lines is hardly prohibitive. > I actually attended a meeting as a consultant to a company that will go > unnamed. They have a /21 and there was a disussion about putting everything > behind a firewall and using private IP. The head of their IT group pointed > out that they would lose their ability to router their network as they were > doing via BGP and would put the company at risk. That was the end of the > discussion. Like I said early on in this discussion. You have two competing > needs. Address space and routing tables. By not making a rational choice, > you simple produce decisions that have adverse impacts. The problem is that this entity runs the risk of forfeiture of _all_ of their address space. I saw somewhere in this thread someone mentioning a buy-back program for address space. That isn't necessary, since address space is delegated, not sold. Theoretically ICANN, the RIR's and the other registries (such as myself on behalf of my employer) have the right to rescind any allocation we have jurisdiction over. Hopefully, this is utilized extremely sparingly. > I think you need to say OK, if have multiple paths, the right router, you > are willing to pay, then you get X address space and that WILL route, > whether you need that much space or not. Set it low enough so that you can > live with the waste and high enough so that tables don't break for the few > who will pay for it(I think a /24 fits if the cost to get it is high > enough). And then don't make the user justify the network need for the size > of the block. The only justifaction comes if the request if for more > numbers. If you persist on BGP == redundancy, but that is hardly the only solution. > > One of the issues being dealt with by ARIN and the other registries > > is how to determine who has a legitimate need and who doesn't. Further > > when we can determine who has a legitimate need, then we > > could actually > > determine how many there might be and what the impact on the routing > > table would be. For example, ARIN would start seeing requests for > > people like me who have a sizable network in their home and want > > redundancy. Should I get a globally routable /24? My home network > > is important. (at least I think it is) What if I need a /28? Should > > that be routed as well? > > > > These are not necessarily small companies by annual > > revenues. They just > > don't have a need for more than a /24. The policies of > > the large vendors who > > insist on filtering, do more to serve the business > > objectives of those > > vendors, than they do to protect the scalability of the Internet. > > > > Most of the folks I know who filter do it to keep their networks > > working and for no other reason. > > > > Thanks for your input. > > ---CJ If someone has a need to have their allocation globally routed, and can justify a /24, they should request that it come from class C space to have the highest likelihood of the route being heard. However, a /24 from class A space (not counting like 24/8 64/8 etc) has a high likelihood of being dropped. If the entity _can't_ justify a /24, then they need to do something like colocate diverse machines with providers across the mesh, with something like a dns trick to direct people to the various colocations. 5 Providers 3 having service machines (web/mx/whatever) 2 having dns machines which check reachability of machines and services (dns boxes are supposed to be on different subnets anyways). If you _need_ redundancy, then you do the above, and pay the associated costs. It is highly unlikely that anyone is going to allow me to deaggregate 0/1 just so I can have redundancy at my house because I "need" it, or at the bar down the street, or the law-firm down the block. The size of the entity doesn't really matter much, whether it is just me, or Shodan Heavy Industries. You either can justify the address space, or you can not. If you can not, you still have options (number machines out of allocations provided by each of your upstreams and dns-twiddle), colocate around the mesh as noted above, where you even get geographical diversity to avoid things like a backhoe or terrorist taking out both of your redundant links by cutting close to your building or blowing it up. There are options which preserve engineering principles, conserve address space, and provide redundancy. These are the things which registries (whether RIRs or registries underneath them) should offer up to entities which require redundancy. Stephen -- Stephen A. Griffin RCN Senior Development Engineer Internet Planning & Design stephen.griffin@rcn.com Network Deployment & Management From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Jun 6 10:10:54 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA01272 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:01:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA01268 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:01:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.NetWright.Net (MAIL.NETWRIGHT.NET [216.169.0.242]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04300 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:01:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Traveler ([216.169.12.221]) by mail.NetWright.Net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53597U1000L100S0V35) with SMTP id Net; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:01:10 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Mike Lieberman" To: "'Stephen Griffin'" Cc: Subject: RE: route filtering policies (from "split b" thread) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:01:06 -0600 Message-ID: <000601bfcfbf$a9a92140$dd0ca9d8@netwright.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200006060533.BAA02158@elektra.ultra.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Stephen Griffin said: > > In the referenced message, Mike Lieberman said: > > > > > Mike, > > > > > > > How would you define exactly how to identify one of these > > > organizations? > > > > Look I understand the frustration you are all having with > this... but let's > > say ARIN sells /24's for $2.500/yr. You really need it for > your home now? > > Selling address space would be a _bad_ thing. Charging money to cover > allocation record-keeping is fine, since it doesn't convey > "ownership". > We've already seen the perils with turning things into commodities > (cf the domain naming system). > Well we disagree. ARIN is already charging a yearly fee for space and to make this argument now is goofy. As I said in an earlier email. All the current policy does is encourage some companies to lie about their needs. > > You need a router and bandwidth capable of full BGP. > Vendors who will take > > your BGP. You're not going to use ISDN, cable modems, xDSL > or a inexpensive > > router. The cost alone if structured correctly can provide > a reasonable > > self-selective system by which most networks won't want the > costs or the > > hassles. > > The costs of a cisco 25XX (which could handle 2 scaled-down > bgp sessions > quite happily), 2 modems, and 2 phone lines is hardly prohibitive. > Once again you're arguing a non-issue. Set the requirement at two full T1's with a CIsco 3640 and 128MB's if you like. > > I actually attended a meeting as a consultant to a company > that will go > > unnamed. They have a /21 and there was a disussion about > putting everything > > behind a firewall and using private IP. The head of their > IT group pointed > > out that they would lose their ability to router their > network as they were > > doing via BGP and would put the company at risk. That was > the end of the > > discussion. Like I said early on in this discussion. You > have two competing > > needs. Address space and routing tables. By not making a > rational choice, > > you simple produce decisions that have adverse impacts. > > The problem is that this entity runs the risk of forfeiture > of _all_ of > their address space. I saw somewhere in this thread someone mentioning > a buy-back program for address space. That isn't necessary, > since address > space is delegated, not sold. Theoretically ICANN, the RIR's and the > other registries (such as myself on behalf of my employer) > have the right > to rescind any allocation we have jurisdiction over. Hopefully, this > is utilized extremely sparingly. > Yes but the risk is forfeiture later or shutting down businesses today. Ever drive faster than the speed limit? How about when the limit was 55 on the interstates? Create unreasonable rules and you get rule breakers. Your hopes are forlorn and wrong. Not every or even most have a need to break the rules but those who do have a need, will. > > I think you need to say OK, if have multiple paths, the > right router, you > > are willing to pay, then you get X address space and that > WILL route, > > whether you need that much space or not. Set it low enough > so that you can > > live with the waste and high enough so that tables don't > break for the few > > who will pay for it(I think a /24 fits if the cost to get it is high > > enough). And then don't make the user justify the network > need for the size > > of the block. The only justifaction comes if the request if for more > > numbers. > > If you persist on BGP == redundancy, but that is hardly the > only solution. > Oh yes it is in some situtations. Your are arguing from an urban model not a rural one. > > > One of the issues being dealt with by ARIN and the other > registries > > > is how to determine who has a legitimate need and who > doesn't. Further > > > when we can determine who has a legitimate need, then we > > > could actually > > > determine how many there might be and what the impact on > the routing > > > table would be. For example, ARIN would start seeing requests for > > > people like me who have a sizable network in their home and want > > > redundancy. Should I get a globally routable /24? My > home network > > > is important. (at least I think it is) What if I need a > /28? Should > > > that be routed as well? > > > > > > These are not necessarily small companies by annual > > > revenues. They just > > > don't have a need for more than a /24. The policies of > > > the large vendors who > > > insist on filtering, do more to serve the business > > > objectives of those > > > vendors, than they do to protect the scalability of > the Internet. > > > > > > Most of the folks I know who filter do it to keep their networks > > > working and for no other reason. > > > > > > Thanks for your input. > > > ---CJ > > If someone has a need to have their allocation globally > routed, and can > justify a /24, they should request that it come from class C space to > have the highest likelihood of the route being heard. > However, a /24 from > class A space (not counting like 24/8 64/8 etc) has a high > likelihood of > being dropped. If the entity _can't_ justify a /24, then they need to > do something like colocate diverse machines with providers > across the mesh, > with something like a dns trick to direct people to the > various colocations. > Once again you are not looking at the rural model. If you ever worked in a region where a single fiber cut took ALL LD services away from 70% of the state subscribers for four hours, you'd start to appreciate how and why we use BGP to assure a messure of robustness. And you are assuming businesses which can, by their business model, colocate. This is not always the case. I agree with the concept of having just one region such as class C space where /24 is assured. It isn't now. > 5 Providers > 3 having service machines (web/mx/whatever) > 2 having dns machines which check reachability of machines > and services > (dns boxes are supposed to be on different subnets anyways). > > If you _need_ redundancy, then you do the above, and pay the > associated > costs. It is highly unlikely that anyone is going to allow me to > deaggregate 0/1 just so I can have redundancy at my house because > I "need" it, or at the bar down the street, or the law-firm > down the block. > The size of the entity doesn't really matter much, whether it is just > me, or Shodan Heavy Industries. You either can justify the > address space, > or you can not. If you can not, you still have options > (number machines > out of allocations provided by each of your upstreams and > dns-twiddle), > colocate around the mesh as noted above, where you even get > geographical > diversity to avoid things like a backhoe or terrorist taking out both > of your redundant links by cutting close to your building or > blowing it > up. There are options which preserve engineering principles, conserve > address space, and provide redundancy. These are the things which > registries (whether RIRs or registries underneath them) should offer > up to entities which require redundancy. This is a non-starter. A name will only resolve to one IP at a time and until that rule changes then those companies that require true always on technologies are going to get the ip space they need to assure routing. RIR's simply can't act fast enough and don't have a crisis emergency system for single networks. And even if they did, take a look at how long it takes cache to expire. There are very good reasons with the Rube Goldberg solutions you offer are not helpful and don't solve the fundamental problem. /* Mike Lieberman Mike@NetWright.Net */ /* President */ /* Net Wright LLC */ /* http://www.netwright.net */ /* Voice and Fax: 307-857-1053 */ From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Jul 13 11:13:26 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA23770 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:00:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA23766 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:00:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tcb.net (tcb.net [205.168.100.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06325 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:00:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sofos.tcb.net (sofos.tcb.net [127.0.0.1]) by tcb.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA19327 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:01:53 -0600 Message-Id: <200007131501.JAA19327@tcb.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.3 To: arin-discuss@arin.net From: Danny McPherson Reply-To: danny@tcb.net Subject: FYI: 31-bits draft Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:01:53 -0600 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR [] To: IETF-Announce: ; From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Reply-to: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-retana-31bits-01.txt Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 06:28:35 -0400 Sender: nsyracus@cnri.reston.va.us - --NextPart A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links Author(s) : A. Retana, R. White, V. Fuller, D. McPherson Filename : draft-retana-31bits-01.txt Pages : 9 Date : 12-Jul-00 With ever-increasing pressure to conserve IP address space on the Internet, it makes sense to consider where relatively minor changes can be made to fielded practice to improve numbering efficiency. One such change, proposed by this document, is to halve the amount of address space assigned to point-to-point links (common throughout the Internet infrastructure) by allowing the use of 31-bit subnet masks in a very limited way. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-retana-31bits-01.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-retana-31bits-01.txt". 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Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. - --NextPart Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; Boundary="OtherAccess" - --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; access-type="mail-server"; server="mailserv@ietf.org" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <20000712140550.I-D@ietf.org> ENCODING mime FILE /internet-drafts/draft-retana-31bits-01.txt - --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; name="draft-retana-31bits-01.txt"; site="ftp.ietf.org"; access-type="anon-ftp"; directory="internet-drafts" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <20000712140550.I-D@ietf.org> - --OtherAccess-- - --NextPart-- From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jul 31 17:26:26 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA05559 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:22:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA05542; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:22:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from post.xecu.net (post.xecu.net [216.127.136.211]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04021; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:22:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from shell.xecu.net (shell.xecu.net [216.127.136.216]) by post.xecu.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B589F47D3; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:18:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by shell.xecu.net (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01901; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:21:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.xecu.net: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:21:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Dills To: Bruce Robertson Cc: hostmaster@arin.net, arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: Address block problem In-Reply-To: <200007311831.LAA00950@roo.greatbasin.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bruce Robertson wrote: > It was my understanding that 216.82.160.0/19 was reserved for our future > expansion past the end of 216.82.128.0/19. I find that this block has > been assigned to someone else. Why was this allowed to happen without > any notification? > > Once again I find that I am penalized for being frugal with IP addresses. All > of the ARIN policies are such that people who waste IP addresses are > rewarded for that behavior, and people who manage to slow their address > consumption to almost zero are penalized. On top of that, this action just > added to fragmentation, since when I need another /19, it will now no longer > be contiguous with an existing block. While I'm happy to note that my contiguous /19 is still available for me to grab (which will be happening pretty soon), I fail to see what the big deal is. What does having the contiguous /19 really get you? I mean, 7 times out of 10 there will be two routes for the given CIDR block...different prefix lengths for managing inbound traffic, multi-homed customers, etc. So number of routes isn't a large consideration, at least to me. Is it just an annoyance thing? Andy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jul 31 17:48:16 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA07043 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:43:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA07038 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:43:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01202 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:43:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from roo.greatbasin.net (IDENT:root@roo.greatbasin.net [207.228.31.16]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29361; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:43:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roo.greatbasin.net (IDENT:bruce@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by roo.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01210; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:43:22 -0700 Message-Id: <200007312143.OAA01210@roo.greatbasin.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Andy Dills cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: Address block problem In-Reply-To: Message from Andy Dills of "Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:21:21 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:43:22 -0700 From: Bruce Robertson Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR > I mean, 7 times out of 10 there will be two routes for the given CIDR > block...different prefix lengths for managing inbound traffic, multi-homed > customers, etc. So number of routes isn't a large consideration, at least > to me. Hmmm, I must be one of the 3 out of 10... I would never use anything but a single advertisement for the entire block. All of my inbound traffic is considered equivalent, and I force my multihomed customers to get their own address space. > Is it just an annoyance thing? Mostly, yes. -- Bruce Robertson, President/CEO +1-775-348-7299 Great Basin Internet Services, Inc. fax: +1-775-348-9412 For PGP key: finger bruce@greatbasin.net From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jul 31 18:10:35 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA08464 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:06:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA08448 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:06:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from post.xecu.net (post.xecu.net [216.127.136.211]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA27428 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:07:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from shell.xecu.net (shell.xecu.net [216.127.136.216]) by post.xecu.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B34E4752; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:04:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by shell.xecu.net (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03771; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:06:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.xecu.net: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:06:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Dills To: Bruce Robertson Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: Address block problem In-Reply-To: <200007312143.OAA01210@roo.greatbasin.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bruce Robertson wrote: > > I mean, 7 times out of 10 there will be two routes for the given CIDR > > block...different prefix lengths for managing inbound traffic, multi-homed > > customers, etc. So number of routes isn't a large consideration, at least > > to me. > > Hmmm, I must be one of the 3 out of 10... I would never use anything but > a single advertisement for the entire block. Here's an example of why one would do this: we have transit with UUnet and Abovenet. We service some customers from our colo'ed pop at Abovenet. Thus, I announce an additional /22 to get traffic to return directly to our customers via Abovenet, instead of UUnet-us-Abovenet. BTW, my 7 out of 10 figure was wildly OOMA. I just remember seeing the number of needless routes leaked by UUnet (over 200), and at that point I realized that as long as all of my routes have a purpose, things will be ok. You need 128MB to reliably take 2 full views nowadays anyhow... > All of my inbound traffic is considered equivalent, and I force my > multihomed customers to get their own address space. Why do you force multihomed customers to get their own address space? You need to be using 8 /24's to get PI space. None of my multihomed customers come anywhere near qualifying. De-aggregate routes are not an implication of sloppy routing, but sloppy routing will often utilize de-aggregate routes. > > Is it just an annoyance thing? > > Mostly, yes. That's cool, I can feel for you. I certainly can imagine that finding out this information would put a sour note onto the end of your day... Andy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jul 31 18:24:18 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA09364 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:20:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA09360 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:20:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12291 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:20:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from roo.greatbasin.net (IDENT:root@roo.greatbasin.net [207.228.31.16]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA21182; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roo.greatbasin.net (IDENT:bruce@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by roo.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01251; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:19:52 -0700 Message-Id: <200007312219.PAA01251@roo.greatbasin.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Andy Dills cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: Address block problem In-Reply-To: Message from Andy Dills of "Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:06:46 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:19:51 -0700 From: Bruce Robertson Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR > Why do you force multihomed customers to get their own address space? You > need to be using 8 /24's to get PI space. None of my multihomed customers > come anywhere near qualifying. Hmmm... mine do. A couple have single /24s from the swamp that I'm advertising under protest, but the rest have large blocks. -- Bruce Robertson, President/CEO +1-775-348-7299 Great Basin Internet Services, Inc. fax: +1-775-348-9412 For PGP key: finger bruce@greatbasin.net From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jul 31 18:38:58 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA10000 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:35:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA09996 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:34:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-la.station.sony.com (mail-la.station.sony.com [209.0.234.32]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA23252 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:34:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-la.station.sony.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:34:37 -0700 Message-ID: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B01CFC01C@mail-la.station.sony.com> From: "Hostmaster, Verant" To: arin-discuss@arin.net Cc: "Hostmaster, Verant" Subject: RE: Address block problem Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:34:30 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Yeah, /24's are fine as long as you're not a recent recipient of address space, like us. We have a block from the 64.0.0.0/8 space, but we can't advertise /24's out of that block because some stick-in-the-mud ISPs out there still consider them from the "class A" address space, and filter them out. ---- Dani Roisman Verant Interactive hostmaster@verant.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Robertson [SMTP:bruce@greatbasin.net] > Sent: Monday, July 31, 00 3:20 PM > To: Andy Dills > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net > Subject: Re: Address block problem > > > Why do you force multihomed customers to get their own address space? > You > > need to be using 8 /24's to get PI space. None of my multihomed > customers > > come anywhere near qualifying. > > Hmmm... mine do. A couple have single /24s from the swamp that I'm > advertising under protest, but the rest have large blocks. > > -- > Bruce Robertson, President/CEO > +1-775-348-7299 > Great Basin Internet Services, Inc. fax: +1-775-348-9412 > For PGP key: finger bruce@greatbasin.net > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jul 31 18:43:55 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA10262 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:40:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA10249; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:40:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA25354; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:40:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02459; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:34:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:40:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: Andy Dills cc: Bruce Robertson , hostmaster@arin.net, arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: Address block problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR I'll tell you why it's annoying. If you are managing multiple routers and multiple IP blocks every time you have to make a global change (for example in an access-list) it just gets to be that much more work. I know there are a ton of ISPs that do not filter traffic, and I don't want to get into a discussion on why you should or should not filter traffic. The point is there are a lot of ISPs and many more companys that do filter traffic on their core routers. If I need to make a change to my access-lists in general it causes my list to be a multiple of however many blocks I have longer than it needs to be. And for the person who is going to say just do a "permit any", that doesn't work because I do have one small chunk that I treat differently, even at the core. Everything is more difficult to manage. You have to put more blocks into your network statements. You have that many more blocks to change contact info for, and I for one have never found dealing with Arin's contact info templates the easiest thing in the world. You have more lines for sendmail to check through to allow or deny mail relay. The examples could go on for quite awhile. No, it's not going to cost me $10K more money to deal with it, but it is a pain. And to Bruce, I was told by Arin that they no longer do any block reservations. And if someone else out there is able to reserve IP space, and I wasn't able to, I'm going to be incredibly unhappy with Arin. I don't think any court of law would take kindly to them playing favorites. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Andy Dills wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bruce Robertson wrote: > > > It was my understanding that 216.82.160.0/19 was reserved for our future > > expansion past the end of 216.82.128.0/19. I find that this block has > > been assigned to someone else. Why was this allowed to happen without > > any notification? > > > > Once again I find that I am penalized for being frugal with IP addresses. All > > of the ARIN policies are such that people who waste IP addresses are > > rewarded for that behavior, and people who manage to slow their address > > consumption to almost zero are penalized. On top of that, this action just > > added to fragmentation, since when I need another /19, it will now no longer > > be contiguous with an existing block. > > While I'm happy to note that my contiguous /19 is still available for me > to grab (which will be happening pretty soon), I fail to see what > the big deal is. > > What does having the contiguous /19 really get you? > > I mean, 7 times out of 10 there will be two routes for the given CIDR > block...different prefix lengths for managing inbound traffic, multi-homed > customers, etc. So number of routes isn't a large consideration, at least > to me. > > Is it just an annoyance thing? > > Andy > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Andy Dills 301-682-9972 > Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jul 31 19:03:31 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA11305 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:59:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA11301 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:59:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from prv-mail20.provo.novell.com (prv-mail20.provo.novell.com [137.65.81.122]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA25646 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:59:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from INET-PRV-Message_Server by prv-mail20.provo.novell.com with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:58:48 -0600 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.3.1 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:57:53 -0600 From: "Hilarie Orman" To: Subject: Re: Address block problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by ops.arin.net id SAA11302 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR ARIN policies are based, in large part, on the principle of avoiding fragmentation. The question is, what led to the expectation of reserved space for the block in question, did the holder of it meet the conditions for holding the space? There's no secrecy about the policies, so it should be easy to resolve the question. Hilarie Orman ARIN AC From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Aug 1 09:17:56 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA17487 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:13:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from snoopy (snoopy.arin.net [192.149.252.189]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA17483; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:13:15 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: From: "Richard Jimmerson" To: "'Bruce Robertson'" Cc: Subject: RE: Address block problem Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:22:33 -0400 Message-ID: <000101bffbbb$8dfc94e0$bdfc95c0@ARINNET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200007311831.LAA00950@roo.greatbasin.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Hello Bruce, > It was my understanding that 216.82.160.0/19 was reserved > for our future expansion past the end of 216.82.128.0/19. > I find that this block has been assigned to someone else. > Why was this allowed to happen without any notification? ARIN does not guarantee the reservation of IP address space. There are times ARIN does hold a reservation for an organization who has been approved for IP address space, but that is an internal practice and is not guaranteed to the requesting organization. If ARIN finds a reservation has been held for more than one year, and in this case almost two, the reservation is removed for assignment elsewhere. Regards, Richard Jimmerson American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net >[mailto:owner-arin-discuss@arin.net]On >Behalf Of Bruce Robertson >Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 2:31 PM >To: hostmaster@arin.net >Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net >Subject: Address block problem > > >It was my understanding that 216.82.160.0/19 was reserved for >our future >expansion past the end of 216.82.128.0/19. I find that this block has >been assigned to someone else. Why was this allowed to happen without >any notification? > >Once again I find that I am penalized for being frugal with IP >addresses. All >of the ARIN policies are such that people who waste IP addresses are >rewarded for that behavior, and people who manage to slow their address >consumption to almost zero are penalized. On top of that, >this action just >added to fragmentation, since when I need another /19, it will >now no longer >be contiguous with an existing block. > >-- >Bruce Robertson, President/CEO >+1-775-348-7299 >Great Basin Internet Services, Inc. fax: >+1-775-348-9412 >For PGP key: finger bruce@greatbasin.net > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Aug 1 13:54:14 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA19382 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:49:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA19372 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:49:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-la.station.sony.com (mail-la.station.sony.com [209.0.234.32]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA08468 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:49:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-la.station.sony.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:49:37 -0700 Message-ID: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B01CFC035@mail-la.station.sony.com> From: "Hostmaster, Verant" To: "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" Subject: RE: Address block problem Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:49:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Joe, Problem with this setup - here's a hypothetical, ISP E is the one that is filtering anything longer than a /20. I'll announce the /21's and a /20 to my connections to ISPA, B, C, and D. ISPE. A, B, C, and D and their peers that to not filter will make routing decisions based upon most specific, and my network will be visible to ISP E. +--------------+ +--------------+ ISP A--| network | | network |--ISP C--ISP E | one |-------| two | ISP B--| 10.10.128/21 | DS3 | 10.10.136/21 |--ISP D +--------------+ +--------------+ That is all good while the connection between my distributed networks is up, but when that DS3 goes down, and I'm still announcing packets for the entire /20, I run a serious risk of blackholing network one from folks connected to ISP E, since it will still think that network two provides connectivity to network one. Here are the filtering policies that I could find, I look forwards to any additional ones that are known: http://www.mibh.net/mibh-peering.html http://info.us.bb.verio.net/routing.html#PeerFilter ---- Dani Roisman Verant Interactive hostmaster@verant.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Gilbert [SMTP:joe@zyan.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 00 10:14 AM > To: Hostmaster, Verant; 'arin-discuss@arin.net' > Subject: RE: Address block problem > > Dani, > > There is another possible solution other than "wasting IP Address > space." Assuming that some larger ISPs filter BGP announcements smaller > than a /20 or /19 (which used to be ARIN's minimum allocation), there is a > > way to announce a smaller block for a geographically disparate network > without compromising routing. By the way, if anyone knows the ISPs that > specifically filter smaller announcements, it would be very handy to have > a > list of these ISPs and their policies. Is there possibly a web site > maintained with this information? > > In any case, here is a solution that I propose that I have worked with and > > is definitely workable in the real world Internet enviroment. What I have > > seen ISPs do to solve this problem is to announce the smaller block, i.e. > /22, that is being used at the geographically disparate network via BGP to > > the upstream providers in that location. Some ISPs will filter that > announcement but most will see it and route traffic within that CIDR block > > directly to your network. To get around the filtering, you should > announce > the /20 at a central location, hopefully where you are using the rest of > the aggregate. That way, even if an ISP is filtering your smaller > announcement, they will see your larger announcement and route the packets > > to the AS that they are receiving that announcement from. Hopefully, that > > AS is not filtering the smaller announcement and will route the traffic to > > the more specific announcement. However, even if some of the traffic does > > get all the way back to your central location without hitting an AS that > is > not filtering, I am sure you could handle that amount of traffic on your > internal links. In actual practice, you probably will not see any traffic > > hitting the AS where the aggregate route is being announced from if you > are > advertising a more specific route elsewhere. All in all, this is a > solution that leads to desirable results and does not greatly > overcomplicate your network. > > > -- > Joe Gilbert, Development Engineer > Zyan Communications > http://www.zyan.com mailto:joe@zyan.com > Toll Free 800-DSL SPEED 800-375-7733 Fax 213-488-6101 > Internet Access DSL T1 T3 VPN Hosting Ecommerce > > > > At 09:07 AM 8/1/00, Hostmaster, Verant wrote: > >Jason, I'd agree with you for most cases, but in our case, we have a /18, > >and have a few networks that are distributed geographically, and are > >multihomed. In some cases, there is an imbalance between our > connectivity > >to the Internet, and our connectivity within an AS. E.g. one network > might > >have 2 oc12's to 2 different ISPs, but only have a ds3 back to the rest > of > >our network for internal traffic. I only have a /22 worth of address > space > >on that network, but I have to waste and announce an entire /20, because > >that's all that Verio, mibh, and a few others, will accept from my > >64.37.128.0/18 block. > > > >Now, had I gotten into the game a year ago, my block's first octet would > >have been in the 200's, and I would be free to use /24's (which I > wouldn't, > >the smallest I will announce is a /22). > > > >So possbile solutions are: > >1) get in the game early (too late) > >2) waste tons of address space (I hate to do this, but it works) > >3) make enough noise, and tell my customers to change isp's when they > can't > >reach my network, and hope that these few ISP's realize that the rest of > the > >Internet is accepting /24's from all blocks, and their routers haven't > >suffered, so they better jump on the bandwagon. > > > >We're going with option 3 for now, and see where that takes us. > > > >Dani D. Roisman > >Verant Interactive > >hostmaster@verant.com > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Redisch, Jason [SMTP:JRedisch@virtela.com] > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 8:32 AM > > > To: arin-discuss@arin.net > > > Subject: RE: Address block problem > > > > > > Dani, > > > Many ISP's have IP Space from legacy Class A space. A check of > the > > > whois database would show that anyone still filtering on /8 on that > space > > > is > > > missing a large portion of the Internet. A simple call to their POC > > > should > > > fix any connectivity issues. > > > > > > However, several ISP's choose to filter all address space based > on > > > the ARIN min allocation size for that block. They feel that they can > > > reach > > > the entire Internet that way while keeping routing tables on their > > > networks > > > to a minimum size. This decision to filter or not is made by each ISP > > > individually. In doing so, these ISP's sometimes sacrifice more > optimal > > > paths, but in can still reach the entire Internet. Announcing /24's > for > > > multihomed customers should work for the portion of the Internet that > > > wants > > > to listen to them, and the larger aggregate blocks of the upstream can > be > > > used to direct traffic for those ISP's that do filter at the higher > bit > > > boundaries. > > > > > > > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ > > > /\ > > > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\ > > > Jason Redisch (V) 720.493.5533 ext 4120 > > > Virtela Communications (F) 720.493.5006 > > > Sr. IP Engineer > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Hostmaster, Verant [mailto:hostmaster@verant.com] > > > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 4:35 PM > > > To: arin-discuss@arin.net > > > Cc: Hostmaster, Verant > > > Subject: RE: Address block problem > > > > > > > > > Yeah, /24's are fine as long as you're not a recent recipient of > address > > > space, like us. We have a block from the 64.0.0.0/8 space, but we > can't > > > advertise /24's out of that block because some stick-in-the-mud ISPs > out > > > there still consider them from the "class A" address space, and filter > > > them > > > out. > > > > > > ---- > > > Dani Roisman > > > Verant Interactive > > > hostmaster@verant.com > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Bruce Robertson [SMTP:bruce@greatbasin.net] > > > > Sent: Monday, July 31, 00 3:20 PM > > > > To: Andy Dills > > > > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net > > > > Subject: Re: Address block problem > > > > > > > > > Why do you force multihomed customers to get their own address > space? > > > > You > > > > > need to be using 8 /24's to get PI space. None of my multihomed > > > > customers > > > > > come anywhere near qualifying. > > > > > > > > Hmmm... mine do. A couple have single /24s from the swamp that I'm > > > > advertising under protest, but the rest have large blocks. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Bruce Robertson, President/CEO > > > > +1-775-348-7299 > > > > Great Basin Internet Services, Inc. fax: > +1-775-348-9412 > > > > For PGP key: finger bruce@greatbasin.net > > > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Aug 1 11:36:48 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA04086 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:32:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA04081 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:32:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mulder.regus.virtela.com (virtela50.ppp.frii.net [216.17.165.50]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23638 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:32:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from posthaus.virtela.cc (posthaus.virtela.cc [172.16.97.7]) by mulder.regus.virtela.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12094 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:32:03 -0600 Received: by posthaus.virtela.cc with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:31:58 -0600 Message-ID: From: "Redisch, Jason" To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: RE: Address block problem Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:31:57 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Dani, Many ISP's have IP Space from legacy Class A space. A check of the whois database would show that anyone still filtering on /8 on that space is missing a large portion of the Internet. A simple call to their POC should fix any connectivity issues. However, several ISP's choose to filter all address space based on the ARIN min allocation size for that block. They feel that they can reach the entire Internet that way while keeping routing tables on their networks to a minimum size. This decision to filter or not is made by each ISP individually. In doing so, these ISP's sometimes sacrifice more optimal paths, but in can still reach the entire Internet. Announcing /24's for multihomed customers should work for the portion of the Internet that wants to listen to them, and the larger aggregate blocks of the upstream can be used to direct traffic for those ISP's that do filter at the higher bit boundaries. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Jason Redisch (V) 720.493.5533 ext 4120 Virtela Communications (F) 720.493.5006 Sr. IP Engineer -----Original Message----- From: Hostmaster, Verant [mailto:hostmaster@verant.com] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 4:35 PM To: arin-discuss@arin.net Cc: Hostmaster, Verant Subject: RE: Address block problem Yeah, /24's are fine as long as you're not a recent recipient of address space, like us. We have a block from the 64.0.0.0/8 space, but we can't advertise /24's out of that block because some stick-in-the-mud ISPs out there still consider them from the "class A" address space, and filter them out. ---- Dani Roisman Verant Interactive hostmaster@verant.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Robertson [SMTP:bruce@greatbasin.net] > Sent: Monday, July 31, 00 3:20 PM > To: Andy Dills > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net > Subject: Re: Address block problem > > > Why do you force multihomed customers to get their own address space? > You > > need to be using 8 /24's to get PI space. None of my multihomed > customers > > come anywhere near qualifying. > > Hmmm... mine do. A couple have single /24s from the swamp that I'm > advertising under protest, but the rest have large blocks. > > -- > Bruce Robertson, President/CEO > +1-775-348-7299 > Great Basin Internet Services, Inc. fax: +1-775-348-9412 > For PGP key: finger bruce@greatbasin.net > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Aug 1 12:11:21 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA08519 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:07:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA08515 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:07:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-la.station.sony.com (mail-la.station.sony.com [209.0.234.32]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA12910 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:07:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-la.station.sony.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:07:06 -0700 Message-ID: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B01CFC031@mail-la.station.sony.com> From: "Hostmaster, Verant" To: "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" Subject: RE: Address block problem Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:07:04 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Jason, I'd agree with you for most cases, but in our case, we have a /18, and have a few networks that are distributed geographically, and are multihomed. In some cases, there is an imbalance between our connectivity to the Internet, and our connectivity within an AS. E.g. one network might have 2 oc12's to 2 different ISPs, but only have a ds3 back to the rest of our network for internal traffic. I only have a /22 worth of address space on that network, but I have to waste and announce an entire /20, because that's all that Verio, mibh, and a few others, will accept from my 64.37.128.0/18 block. Now, had I gotten into the game a year ago, my block's first octet would have been in the 200's, and I would be free to use /24's (which I wouldn't, the smallest I will announce is a /22). So possbile solutions are: 1) get in the game early (too late) 2) waste tons of address space (I hate to do this, but it works) 3) make enough noise, and tell my customers to change isp's when they can't reach my network, and hope that these few ISP's realize that the rest of the Internet is accepting /24's from all blocks, and their routers haven't suffered, so they better jump on the bandwagon. We're going with option 3 for now, and see where that takes us. Dani D. Roisman Verant Interactive hostmaster@verant.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Redisch, Jason [SMTP:JRedisch@virtela.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 8:32 AM > To: arin-discuss@arin.net > Subject: RE: Address block problem > > Dani, > Many ISP's have IP Space from legacy Class A space. A check of the > whois database would show that anyone still filtering on /8 on that space > is > missing a large portion of the Internet. A simple call to their POC > should > fix any connectivity issues. > > However, several ISP's choose to filter all address space based on > the ARIN min allocation size for that block. They feel that they can > reach > the entire Internet that way while keeping routing tables on their > networks > to a minimum size. This decision to filter or not is made by each ISP > individually. In doing so, these ISP's sometimes sacrifice more optimal > paths, but in can still reach the entire Internet. Announcing /24's for > multihomed customers should work for the portion of the Internet that > wants > to listen to them, and the larger aggregate blocks of the upstream can be > used to direct traffic for those ISP's that do filter at the higher bit > boundaries. > > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ > /\ > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\ > Jason Redisch (V) 720.493.5533 ext 4120 > Virtela Communications (F) 720.493.5006 > Sr. IP Engineer > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hostmaster, Verant [mailto:hostmaster@verant.com] > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 4:35 PM > To: arin-discuss@arin.net > Cc: Hostmaster, Verant > Subject: RE: Address block problem > > > Yeah, /24's are fine as long as you're not a recent recipient of address > space, like us. We have a block from the 64.0.0.0/8 space, but we can't > advertise /24's out of that block because some stick-in-the-mud ISPs out > there still consider them from the "class A" address space, and filter > them > out. > > ---- > Dani Roisman > Verant Interactive > hostmaster@verant.com > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bruce Robertson [SMTP:bruce@greatbasin.net] > > Sent: Monday, July 31, 00 3:20 PM > > To: Andy Dills > > Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net > > Subject: Re: Address block problem > > > > > Why do you force multihomed customers to get their own address space? > > You > > > need to be using 8 /24's to get PI space. None of my multihomed > > customers > > > come anywhere near qualifying. > > > > Hmmm... mine do. A couple have single /24s from the swamp that I'm > > advertising under protest, but the rest have large blocks. > > > > -- > > Bruce Robertson, President/CEO > > +1-775-348-7299 > > Great Basin Internet Services, Inc. fax: +1-775-348-9412 > > For PGP key: finger bruce@greatbasin.net > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Aug 7 10:58:33 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA23111 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:45:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA23103 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:45:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mulder.regus.virtela.com (virtela50.ppp.frii.net [216.17.165.50]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06802 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:45:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from posthaus.virtela.cc (posthaus.virtela.cc [172.16.97.7]) by mulder.regus.virtela.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA20714 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:45:12 -0600 Received: by posthaus.virtela.cc with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:45:04 -0600 Message-ID: From: "Redisch, Jason" To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Interesting Concept Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:45:00 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Hello All, http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2612074,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews 01 In the article at the URL above there is an upcoming IP address issue that needs to be taken care soon. The summary of the article is that they want to protect children by reserving blocks of IP Space to be allocated to kid friendly sites. This seems to be in the idea stage and 'they' are still considering a DNS implementation. Please tell me that we have someone in ARIN or the ASO working on a recommendation not to implement this idea, or at least following it better with closer ties to the decision makers. I apologize if this is a topic already being discussed on another ARIN mailing list. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Jason Redisch (V) 720.493.5533 ext 4120 Virtela Communications (F) 720.493.5006 Sr. IP Engineer From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 12:52:53 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA05966 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:32:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA05962; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:32:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.norlight.com (mail.norlight.com [207.170.3.35]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07632; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:32:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lotus.norlight.com (lotus [89.87.145.18]) by mail.norlight.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA27889; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:29:34 -0500 Subject: guideline for name-based web hosting justification To: hostnamster@arin.net Cc: "arin-discuss@arin.net" X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.3 March 21, 2000 Message-ID: From: "Hyunseog Ryu" Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:29:03 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on Lotus/Norlight(Release 5.0.4a |July 24, 2000) at 09/11/2000 11:29:02 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Dear Sir/Madam Good morning! I read new ARIN's policy regarding to web hosting. http://www.arin.net/announcements/policy_changes.html But what is the acceptable guideline - or ratio - for IP justification of web hosting? Currently we have heavy web hosting customer that they hosted more than 400 regular business web hosting customer, and more than 200 web hosting customer site to be live soon. According to me, it's not make sense to assign a couple of IP address to a couple of hundred web hosting. I think there is some standard measurement for this kind of name-based web hosting justification. Please let me know the standard ratio for name-based web hosting for IP justification. What is a ratio for IP justification for name-based web hosting justification that can be considered as acceptable justification? Everytime when we get additional IP address from web hosting service provider, do we need to contact with ARIN to get exceptiion warranty? Please make it easy to justify IP request. I think we need to have standard measurement for this. Thanks. Hyun ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hyunseog Ryu / CCDA, MCSE Network Engineer/Applications Engineering Norlight Telecommunications, Inc. The Guardians of Data 275 North Corporate Drive Brookfield, WI 53045-5818 Tel. +1.262.792.7965 Fax. +1.262.792.7733 From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 13:44:29 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA12042 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:32:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA12037 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:32:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.journey.com (postfix@smtp-temp.michix.net [207.241.134.28]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09639 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:32:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from matt (unknown [207.241.139.27]) by smtp.journey.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3734A12C85F for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:32:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matt Bailey" To: Subject: RE: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:32:07 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR For those of us that do accounting via IP how do you expect us to us Name Based Virtuals? Until there is a method for accounting all traffic to a domain name without using IP I see this as totally unreasonable. We base all of our security filters and traffic filters on a customers IP assigned to them. We also have hardware that can not support name based virtuals and thus has a NIC card for each site? Explain IN DETAIL the method used to account for these in our requests. As example if I have 200,000 websites you want me to fit all of this into a /32 or even a /24 that is TOTALLY unreasonable. DETAILS please on how you are going to justify this? Also why not go through the aollocations and start retreiving numbers back from Companies and schools that have more than they need? All you are doing is slowing down the Internet's growth. Make web hosting companies get to the high %90 utils before allow more allocation. I would like some input on this as I am sure the rest of the planet would as well. Matthew S. Bailey -----Original Message----- From: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net [mailto:owner-arin-discuss@arin.net]On Behalf Of Hyunseog Ryu Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:29 PM To: hostnamster@arin.net Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Dear Sir/Madam Good morning! I read new ARIN's policy regarding to web hosting. http://www.arin.net/announcements/policy_changes.html [SNIP] From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 16:18:26 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA05975 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:06:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA05961 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:06:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.journey.com (postfix@smtp-temp.michix.net [207.241.134.28]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09246 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:06:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from matt (unknown [207.241.139.27]) by smtp.journey.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A11512C840 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:07:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matt Bailey" To: Subject: RE: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:06:38 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <01C01BFF.89A869A0.sburns@rackspace.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Sounds like they are using a double edged sword to answer their own questions. Don't do that but its ok to continue if you want to. What is the point of the policy then? If that is the case the it should be stricken (SP?) fromt he records until better methods are found.. There might be Web hosting companies out there that do namebased virtuals.. But they already do that. If there were not other technical problems wih it everyone would have already switched. The fact they think we waste space on purpose is obsurd. So we can say 'I have more space that you' no we do this because our business need it.. --Matt -----Original Message----- From: sharon [mailto:sburns@rackspace.com] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 3:50 PM To: 'Matt Bailey'; arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: RE: guideline for name-based web hosting justification I have had several conversations with ARIN regarding this new policy. I was also told that(as asked earlier by Hyunseog Ryu), I have also been told that it is not necessary to forward each request for ARIN's approval or exception to the policy. I have been told that as long as it's not for IP based hosting it would be considered acceptable use. In fact this is the quote that was sent to me from ARIN: ".... Please continue to issue static IP addresses to your customers who state they are offering a service that is not technically complaint with name-based hosting...." Hope this helps to give some of you insite. Sharon Burns IP Administrator Rackspace Managed Hosting 112 East Pecan St. Ste. 600 San Antonio, TX 78240 210-892-4010 -----Original Message----- From: Matt Bailey [SMTP:mbailey@journey.net] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:32 PM To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: RE: guideline for name-based web hosting justification For those of us that do accounting via IP how do you expect us to us Name Based Virtuals? Until there is a method for accounting all traffic to a domain name without using IP I see this as totally unreasonable. We base all of our security filters and traffic filters on a customers IP assigned to them. We also have hardware that can not support name based virtuals and thus has a NIC card for each site? Explain IN DETAIL the method used to account for these in our requests. As example if I have 200,000 websites you want me to fit all of this into a /32 or even a /24 that is TOTALLY unreasonable. DETAILS please on how you are going to justify this? Also why not go through the aollocations and start retreiving numbers back from Companies and schools that have more than they need? All you are doing is slowing down the Internet's growth. Make web hosting companies get to the high %90 utils before allow more allocation. I would like some input on this as I am sure the rest of the planet would as well. Matthew S. Bailey -----Original Message----- From: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net [mailto:owner-arin-discuss@arin.net]On Behalf Of Hyunseog Ryu Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:29 PM To: hostnamster@arin.net Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Dear Sir/Madam Good morning! I read new ARIN's policy regarding to web hosting. http://www.arin.net/announcements/policy_changes.html [SNIP] From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 16:33:37 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA09121 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:23:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA09096 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:23:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from longhorn.nvc.net (mailserver.nvc.net [209.74.73.237]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA22190 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:23:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nvc.net (unverified [127.0.0.1]) by longhorn.nvc.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.4) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:39:32 -0500 Message-ID: <2446420009111203932890@nvc.net> X-EM-Version: 5, 0, 0, 7 X-EM-Registration: #3053500714A91F039330 X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: brianj@nvc.net From: "brianj" To: mbailey@journey.net Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: RE: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:39:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR ---- Original Message ---- From: mbailey@journey.net To: arin-discuss@arin.net, Subject: RE: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:32:07 -0400 >For those of us that do accounting via IP how do you expect us to us >Name >Based Virtuals? Until there is a method for accounting all traffic >to a >domain name without using IP I see this as totally unreasonable. We >base all >of our security filters and traffic filters on a customers IP >assigned to >them. We also have hardware that can not support name based virtuals >and >thus has a NIC card for each site? Explain IN DETAIL the method used >to >account for these in our requests. If you currnetly use the web server's log files to account for traffic (which I'm sure is the standard method of throughput accounting for web-sites), you should easily be able to parse usage based on named sites. It shouldn't be significantly more difficult than parsing the logs for IP sites. > >As example if I have 200,000 websites you want me to fit all of this >into a >/32 or even a /24 that is TOTALLY unreasonable. DETAILS please on >how you >are going to justify this? You will always need at least a single IP address for each server, so this is not an issue, and will not be an issue with ARIN. > >Also why not go through the aollocations and start retreiving >numbers back >from Companies and schools that have more than they need? All you >are doing >is slowing down the Internet's growth. Make web hosting companies >get to the >high %90 utils before allow more allocation. > >I would like some input on this as I am sure the rest of the planet >would as >well. > >Matthew S. Bailey > > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net >[mailto:owner-arin-discuss@arin.net]On >Behalf Of Hyunseog Ryu >Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:29 PM >To: hostnamster@arin.net >Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net >Subject: guideline for name-based web hosting justification > > >Dear Sir/Madam > >Good morning! >I read new ARIN's policy regarding to web hosting. >http://www.arin.net/announcements/policy_changes.html >[SNIP] > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 19:11:59 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA19566 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:00:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA19528 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:00:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA15010 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:59:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 9642F3DC2; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:59:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:59:40 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: Matt Bailey Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000911175940.A89979@Geeks.ORG> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mbailey@journey.net on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:32:07PM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:32:07PM -0400, Matt Bailey wrote: > For those of us that do accounting via IP how do you expect us to us > Name Based Virtuals? Until there is a method for accounting all > traffic to a domain name without using IP I see this as totally > unreasonable. We base all of our security filters and traffic > filters on a customers IP assigned to them. We also have hardware > that can not support name based virtuals and thus has a NIC card for > each site? Explain IN DETAIL the method used to account for these in > our requests. I concur! We bill via bandwidth and we need a way to track usage over a period of time so we can bill for peak usage. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 19:38:08 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA21354 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:27:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA21308 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:27:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA29704 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:26:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13YcwE-0002H2-00; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:24:34 -0600 Message-ID: <39BD69B2.A7615A77@hilander.com> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:24:34 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Bailey CC: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Matt Bailey wrote: > > For those of us that do accounting via IP how do you expect us to us Name > Based Virtuals? Until there is a method for accounting all traffic to a > domain name without using IP I see this as totally unreasonable. We base all > of our security filters and traffic filters on a customers IP assigned to > them. We also have hardware that can not support name based virtuals and > thus has a NIC card for each site? Explain IN DETAIL the method used to > account for these in our requests. How about parsing access logs? Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 19:59:10 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA23797 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:50:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA23793 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:50:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.journey.com (postfix@smtp-temp.michix.net [207.241.134.28]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA24862 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:50:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from matt (unknown [207.241.139.27]) by smtp.journey.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F71C12C847; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:50:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matt Bailey" To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Subject: RE: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:49:59 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <39BD69B2.A7615A77@hilander.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR We parse at the physical IP layer as we track traffic for FTP/SMTP/POP/HTTP etc for each customer.. -----Original Message----- From: Alec H. Peterson [mailto:ahp@hilander.com] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 7:25 PM To: Matt Bailey Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Matt Bailey wrote: > > For those of us that do accounting via IP how do you expect us to us Name > Based Virtuals? Until there is a method for accounting all traffic to a > domain name without using IP I see this as totally unreasonable. We base all > of our security filters and traffic filters on a customers IP assigned to > them. We also have hardware that can not support name based virtuals and > thus has a NIC card for each site? Explain IN DETAIL the method used to > account for these in our requests. How about parsing access logs? Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 20:08:05 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA24593 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:58:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA24588 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:58:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from exchange.innerhost.com (EXCHANGE.CORP.INNERHOST.COM [216.87.0.198] (may be forged)) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA16748 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:58:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by EXCHANGE.CORP.INNERHOST.COM with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:56:37 -0400 Message-ID: <117FCA2AC143D4119B4800500411C0FFFD39@EXCHANGE.CORP.INNERHOST.COM> From: Joe Gonzalez To: "'brianj@nvc.net'" , Joe Gonzalez , joe@home.innerhost.com Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: RE: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:56:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Taking the IP accounting information from server log files is inefficient and is impossible with a large amount of high traffic sites. The size of logs generated is incredible and can take days to import. Most large service providers take the IP accounting information from the routers using Netflow accounting. The only way I know of matching Netflow information to a site is by IP address. Sincerely, Joe Gonzalez Chief Technology Officer http://www.innerhost.com -----Original Message----- From: brianj [mailto:brianj@nvc.net] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 4:40 PM To: joe@exchange.innerhost.com; joe@home.innerhost.com Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: RE: guideline for name-based web hosting justification If you currnetly use the web server's log files to account for traffic (which I'm sure is the standard method of throughput accounting for web-sites), you should easily be able to parse usage based on named sites. It shouldn't be significantly more difficult than parsing the logs for IP sites. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 20:41:09 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA27124 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:29:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA27120 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:29:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from shore.intercom.net (shore.intercom.net [204.183.208.11]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA25098 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:29:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cross (cross.intercom.net [216.240.106.249]) by shore.intercom.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA16723; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:28:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <010a01c01c50$35be4fc0$f96af0d8@cross> From: "Ron Hensley" To: "Mike Horwath" , "Matt Bailey" Cc: References: <20000911175940.A89979@Geeks.ORG> Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:27:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Disposition-Notification-To: "Ron Hensley" X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Couldn't this be implemented on the WWW server however? With NT's IIS for example, or Apache under any platform you can of course have 1000 WWW domain sites all sharing one IP Address bound to the NIC Card. While some monitoring software my only look at the ip addresses and thus cant differentiate, the WWW server itself sorts the connections based, not on the IP Address, but rather on the content in the packets. More to the point, on the URL being requested. Based on that, each WWW site generates its own unique log files for that site. Thus software can be written to total the byte counts of the hits to that WWW site. WebTrends comes to mind though it doesn't produce billing data of course. Also any machine sitting on the network, like a firewall, that's gathering statistics on bandwidth by IP Address could just as easily inspect the data payload and generate statistics based on that content of the given WWW site. Yes I realize that would be processor intensive, however firewalls do that now to look for attack signatures and the like. To make it short, it sounds like your asking to use 30,000 ip addresses for 30,000 WWW sites, when you only need one, because your software vendor has written bad billing software that doesn't support virtual WWW hosts sharing the same ip address. Yes it would be nice if every toaster, watch, refrigerator, and virtual domain could have its own ip address, however were running out of ip space to get actual peoples computers online. IPV6 will obviously help, but even then it seems a complete and utter waste to use more then one ip address per WWW server or even WWW Cluster, when its not necessary. End Rant---- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Hensley (ronh@intercom.net) CCNA #10082337 Network Administrator - ICNet Internet Services -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I concur! > > We bill via bandwidth and we need a way to track usage over a period > of time so we can bill for peak usage. > > -- > Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG > Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 > Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself > through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 21:01:48 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA28815 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:51:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA28810 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:51:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.journey.com (postfix@smtp-temp.michix.net [207.241.134.28]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA12073 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:51:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from matt (unknown [207.241.139.27]) by smtp.journey.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B14A12C83D; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:51:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matt Bailey" To: "Ron Hensley" Cc: Subject: RE: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:50:53 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <010a01c01c50$35be4fc0$f96af0d8@cross> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Your missing the point completely. I can create a Netflow based usuage in 30 seconds to parse one customers 40Gigabytes worth of logs would take days let alone the machine dedicated to processing it.. Your telling me I should save the traffic log for all the sites would could be 100ish gigs per month and parse them? Why? I can use Netflow based accounting on an IP address and cough up an answer in real time anytime I want it. Obviously you don;t have much web hosting.. I would like to hear comments from some of the web hosting big boys (concentric, etc..) on what they view of this.. What gets tricky is when you have one site scattered over several machines because part of it uses a database/Part of it needs SSL etc.. This just can not happen yet. SSL requires and IP.. So I put a customer into the system. Your telling me I have to rip them out and re-add them to my systems because now they need an IP.. That is total BS. Log files are archaic forms of gathering data. Most of us gather data in Real Time rather than parsing logs. My Customers can get a second by second count of how their website is doing. Ohhh yes and that one website owner who is a total asshole to AOL and you get your 30,000 site IIS box blackholed. Is that fair to the 29,999 other customers? Have you ever tried to get out of an AOL blacklist? I have over 40 IP's I can not use for anything other than office machines as they are blackholed and the customers are LONG GONE.. Of course since we issue an FTP site based on their virtual websites IP we get away with using 30,000 IP's since there is no header in FTP... And of course the virtual mail server on the other box which requires an IP Nope no headers yet there either.. Guess what I burn two for every customer, and guess what ARIN can not stop it cause technically I use FTP and MAIL which can not yet run under one IP. IP Based websites are nothing more than a HACK in the protocol. If the WWC was smart for 1.2 or 2.0 whatever they are working on they would pull virtual headers back out since 60% or so of the people still send http/1.0 requests. I could not tell 30,000 web clients that if someone wants to visit their site they have to upgrade from netscape 2.0 (yes we still have customers using win 3.1 and netscape 2.0 with the netscape dialer.. I cringe but they are the customer they are always right..) I think ARIN needs to rethink what they are suggesting those of us that can not change the way we host websites will work the loopholes. Which I don't agree with. ARIN should have asked the community what we can do to help limit the waste. Rather than forcing it upon us. I would guess if they Asked MIT or GE or some of the other companies out there to give back unused space that they would.. I try very hard to convince my dedicated customers to use NAT and overload IP's as much as they can. If they have an absolute need then we assign them space. This is only fair. OK lets check this out.. We have 200 dedicated dial-ups we can use 200 IP's for this. We have 200 dedicated web sites we can only use 1? Why does that work.. OK Now lets say ARIN says they will not assign you more than 1 IP per piece of modem gear because you can use NAT.. Don't bitch if you support this on Virtual Webhosting as these are the equiv. infact more will work via NAT than with Virtual web.. Someone at ARIN please please tell me why that wasn't added to the policy? This would free up 75% of the IP's on the internet if you require NAT... OK I am getting a headache.. Some people just don;t understand why this is a bad idea. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 21:12:06 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA29404 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:01:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA29400 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:01:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA19584 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:01:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05602; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:54:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:01:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: "Alec H. Peterson" cc: Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <39BD69B2.A7615A77@hilander.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Yikes! Have you ever tried to parse up to 1000 log files per system, with some of them around 500MB in size. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds. For some people it's feasable, but for most of us we *need* IP based accounting. By the way, we are setup to do a large number of URL's pointed at a single IP for some hosting applications, but for the majority of our sites, it is not an option. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > > How about parsing access logs? > > Alec > > -- > Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com > Staff Scientist > CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com > "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 21:52:40 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA02517 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:41:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA02509 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:41:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from iohost.com (io001.iohost.com [209.189.124.99] (may be forged)) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA20610 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:41:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ntserver.virtualis.com (adsl-63-205-138-10.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.205.138.10]) by iohost.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8C1fDe06403; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:41:13 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000911183535.00b71f08@mail.ccsales.com> X-Sender: rkatzvs@mail.ccsales.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:38:43 -0700 To: "Matt Bailey" , "Ron Hensley" From: Randy Katz Subject: RE: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Cc: In-Reply-To: References: <010a01c01c50$35be4fc0$f96af0d8@cross> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR I am a major shareholder in a $7MM/year plus web hosting company, which I consider small, every word Matt says makes 100% sense. It seems there is this "wave" of biased opinions about web hosting stemming from the ISP vs. web host days and easy and relatively low cost to entry for the average web hosting business, but this is simply not an intellectual approach towards the problem and shows that while they might understand by now what an ISP does and the importance of it they are openly taking jabs at web hosting which show complete iqnorance in that area. Please answer the points. Thank you, Randy Katz At 08:50 PM 9/11/2000 -0400, Matt Bailey wrote: >Your missing the point completely. >I can create a Netflow based usuage in 30 seconds to parse one customers >40Gigabytes worth of logs would take days let alone the machine dedicated to >processing it.. Your telling me I should save the traffic log for all the >sites would could be 100ish gigs per month and parse them? Why? I can use >Netflow based accounting on an IP address and cough up an answer in real >time anytime I want it. > >Obviously you don;t have much web hosting.. I would like to hear comments >from some of the web hosting big boys (concentric, etc..) on what they view >of this.. What gets tricky is when you have one site scattered over several >machines because part of it uses a database/Part of it needs SSL etc.. This >just can not happen yet. > >SSL requires and IP.. So I put a customer into the system. Your telling me I >have to rip them out and re-add them to my systems because now they need an >IP.. That is total BS. > >Log files are archaic forms of gathering data. Most of us gather data in >Real Time rather than parsing logs. My Customers can get a second by second >count of how their website is doing. > >Ohhh yes and that one website owner who is a total asshole to AOL and you >get your 30,000 site IIS box blackholed. Is that fair to the 29,999 other >customers? Have you ever tried to get out of an AOL blacklist? I have over >40 IP's I can not use for anything other than office machines as they are >blackholed and the customers are LONG GONE.. > >Of course since we issue an FTP site based on their virtual websites IP we >get away with using 30,000 IP's since there is no header in FTP... >And of course the virtual mail server on the other box which requires an IP >Nope no headers yet there either.. Guess what I burn two for every customer, >and guess what ARIN can not stop it cause technically I use FTP and MAIL >which can not yet run under one IP. IP Based websites are nothing more than >a HACK in the protocol. If the WWC was smart for 1.2 or 2.0 whatever they >are working on they would pull virtual headers back out since 60% or so of >the people still send http/1.0 requests. I could not tell 30,000 web clients >that if someone wants to visit their site they have to upgrade from netscape >2.0 (yes we still have customers using win 3.1 and netscape 2.0 with the >netscape dialer.. I cringe but they are the customer they are always >right..) > >I think ARIN needs to rethink what they are suggesting those of us that can >not change the way we host websites will work the loopholes. Which I don't >agree with. ARIN should have asked the community what we can do to help >limit the waste. Rather than forcing it upon us. I would guess if they Asked >MIT or GE or some of the other companies out there to give back unused space >that they would.. I try very hard to convince my dedicated customers to use >NAT and overload IP's as much as they can. If they have an absolute need >then we assign them space. This is only fair. > >OK lets check this out.. We have 200 dedicated dial-ups we can use 200 IP's >for this. We have 200 dedicated web sites we can only use 1? >Why does that work.. OK Now lets say ARIN says they will not assign you more >than 1 IP per piece of modem gear because you can use NAT.. Don't bitch if >you support this on Virtual Webhosting as these are the equiv. infact more >will work via NAT than with Virtual web.. Someone at ARIN please please tell >me why that wasn't added to the policy? This would free up 75% of the IP's >on the internet if you require NAT... > >OK I am getting a headache.. Some people just don;t understand why this is a >bad idea. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 22:44:01 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id WAA08599 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:31:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA08424; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:29:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA12088; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:29:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13Yfou-0002pN-00; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:29:12 -0600 Message-ID: <39BD94F7.DD143DBE@hilander.com> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:29:11 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mury CC: Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Mury wrote: > > Yikes! > > Have you ever tried to parse up to 1000 log files per system, with some of > them around 500MB in size. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds. It is if you change how you write and parse your logs. > > For some people it's feasable, but for most of us we *need* IP based > accounting. > > By the way, we are setup to do a large number of URL's pointed at a single > IP for some hosting applications, but for the majority of our sites, it is > not an option. Can't say that I have tried it. However at the same time I can think of quite a few ways to make the task far easier and faster. For example, don't do all of the parsing at once at the end of the day; modify the server to keep a running tally of a customer's usage and have it write that alone to a file on the disk every time it changes. Far more efficient. That's just off the top of my head, and probably not a really efficient way to do it. My point is that the Internet is made up of a lot of smart people who are more than capable of solving these issues if they feel like it. Whining about how today's methods of accounting won't work with tomorrow's methods of virtual hosting is a lot like complaining about how yesterday's chalk writes really poorly on today's white boards. If you don't want to be left behind you have to keep on evolving. After all, where would we be today if dial-up providers decided that it was too much work to use dynamically allocated IP addresses and kept on giving each user their own IP address? However, name-based virtual hosts aren't exactly a new thing. Many large web hosters have been using name-based virtual hosts for a while now, so would any of those companies mind sharing a little wisdom on how this can be done? Thanks, Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 11 22:49:56 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id WAA09160 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:38:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA09156 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:38:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from shore.intercom.net (shore.intercom.net [204.183.208.11]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA04971 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:38:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cross (cross.intercom.net [216.240.106.249]) by shore.intercom.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA15323; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:38:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <011f01c01c62$4e72e820$f96af0d8@cross> From: "Ron Hensley" To: "Mury" , "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: "Matt Bailey" , References: Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:36:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Disposition-Notification-To: "Ron Hensley" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR I agree log files of those sorts of magnitudes would be too much to deal with and wasn't suggesting that's the end all solution. However the internet is running out of ips,. and without the guidelines ARIN has, even the ipv6 would get blown out in a decade. Netflow was mentioned alot. Its a dedicated device with all traffic passing through it, doing accounting, however only on ip address. So if Cisco or some other vendor simply adds the functionality to produce its logs based not only on the ip address, but also on the TCP Packets where an URL request for instance is seen, then those needing the virtuals accounted are taken care of, and 30,000 ips for this one example ISP/WWW Hosting Site are cleared up. Noones arguing that you need a solution. I am just arguing that there are other solutions possible beyond having to tag every accessed resource with an individual ip address. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mury" To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: "Matt Bailey" ; Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 9:01 PM Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification > > Yikes! > > Have you ever tried to parse up to 1000 log files per system, with some of > them around 500MB in size. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds. > > For some people it's feasable, but for most of us we *need* IP based > accounting. > > By the way, we are setup to do a large number of URL's pointed at a single > IP for some hosting applications, but for the majority of our sites, it is > not an option. > > Mury > GoldenGate Internet Services > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > > > > > How about parsing access logs? > > > > Alec > > > > -- > > Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com > > Staff Scientist > > CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com > > "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" > > > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 03:04:11 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id CAA15104 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:52:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id CAA15099; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:52:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA12450; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:52:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA31907; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 01:45:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 01:52:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: "Alec H. Peterson" cc: Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <39BD94F7.DD143DBE@hilander.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Dear Alec, Since you basically called those of us pointing out some real issues "whiners," I took the liberty of finding out a little bit more about you. It looks like you are probably a fairly bright person, probably a lot smarter than me. From looking at your web site though and reading your comments below I question how much you really understand what you are talking about when you trivialize some of the issues that have been brought up. I also find it interesting that in your presentation to the 11th NANOG meeting that you did with Avi Freedman (Isn't he working for Digital Island now? Or one of the other distributed content providers) you are supporting a technology that not only assigns an IP address to a web site but assigns multiple IP addresses to a single site. Perhaps I didn't decipher your presentation correctly, but it sure seems like you are supporting performance/service level issues above and beyond IP conservation. Ah, I hear it coming, that each distributed node can handle multiple distributed sites off of a single IP. Very true. Do you know what the ratio of managed sites to in-service systems is? How many locations is Akamai in? I really don't know what the IP "waste" ratio is. But the point is you are supporting performance at the expense of IP addresses however large or small that may be. In addition, you even argue against yourself. You say, "For example, don't do all of the parsing at once at the end of the day; modify the server to keep a running tally of a customer's usage and have it write that alone to a file on the disk every time it changes. Far more efficient. That's just off the top of my head, and probably not a really efficient way to do it." What?! How can it be *far more efficient* and then in the next line it's *not a really efficient*" Can you see why I'm not very thrilled with your off the cuff and seemingly inexperienced comments? By making light of some real issues that were brought up it sure seems like your statements are hypocritical. Now like I said, I'm not the smartest guy out here, so if I've badly misrepresented things I apologize in advance. Bottom line, for every one out there saying it's no big deal to do single IP virtual hosting I would like to see a solution that does not sacrifice reliability, accountability, quality of service, and functionality. I hate it when people (even smart people) start voicing opinions on things they don't understand. I'm also not stubborn. I'm not running things the way I do because it's my way, but because they work, they are scalable, they are functionable, and we have zero down time. I've tried Microsoft IIS. It doesn't work. Well doh, of course it works, but not for a company that demands uptime and security and a fast and simple database. I have to reboot co-located IIS machines all the time. My BSDI/Apache/MySQL/Perl/PHP/Raven boxes have had zero downtime in the last 3 years. That is not an invitation to hack or DOS my network. But thanks for thinking about me. And like I said before, when appropriate we have assigned multiple sites to a single IP. We actually do it by sending all requests into a CGI script that grabs the HTTP_HOST env variable and creates the customized web site on the fly with MySQL. So yes, we are trying to conserve IP addresses, we are not greedy, whiny bastards trying to screw the Internet up for everyone else. For those of you running Apache that want to know how to do it the right way, go to: http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html Cool! Now we all know how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what about all those HTTP/1.0 browsers!? You don't think they exist any more? Check this out. In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of one server from a selective time period. All my logs files are in the www.domain.com format. Here are my commands and results: webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l 400441 webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l 375412 48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my customers' sites used HTTP/1.0. For the uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does NOT support name based hosting. Can I tell all my customers to call you when their online business drops by almost 50%. By the way, can you use a shared IP for secure server certificates? Some more thoughts... Look at some of the new comers to the tech scene, Keynote, Akamai, Speedera, Digital Island, etc. These company's success show how important it is to the world to have fast, reliable, and secure web sites. Quality of Service (in its broad definition) is paramount. And if you don't believe that you can make a fortune by shorting the stock in those companies. I don't want to see any more comments that I should be doing things smarter and better. I want to see explanations of how I can accomplish the things that you say are so easy. Like I said I'm not stubborn... show me the way. If you can't, then please refrain from making popular political statements that don't affect YOUR business and your customers' business. There's my not so bright, whiny, long-winded $10 worth. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services PS. If you are such an advocate for IP conservation why do you have a whole block? I can't tell how many IPs you are wasting because your provider has not swipped your block. But you have multiple web sites running on multiple IPs! What's your excuse? Name: gw1.hilander.com Address: 216.241.32.33 Name: virthost.hilander.com Address: 216.241.32.35 Name: ramirez.hilander.com Address: 216.241.32.34 Pretty interesting web sites I might add. If you are going to call someone a whiner you better have your own act together. The hypocrisy is killing me. Like I said, I'm sure you are smarter than me, but stick to what you know. On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Mury wrote: > > > > Yikes! > > > > Have you ever tried to parse up to 1000 log files per system, with some of > > them around 500MB in size. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds. > > It is if you change how you write and parse your logs. > > > > > For some people it's feasable, but for most of us we *need* IP based > > accounting. > > > > By the way, we are setup to do a large number of URL's pointed at a single > > IP for some hosting applications, but for the majority of our sites, it is > > not an option. > > Can't say that I have tried it. However at the same time I can think of > quite a few ways to make the task far easier and faster. For example, don't > do all of the parsing at once at the end of the day; modify the server to > keep a running tally of a customer's usage and have it write that alone to a > file on the disk every time it changes. Far more efficient. > > That's just off the top of my head, and probably not a really efficient way > to do it. My point is that the Internet is made up of a lot of smart people > who are more than capable of solving these issues if they feel like it. > Whining about how today's methods of accounting won't work with tomorrow's > methods of virtual hosting is a lot like complaining about how yesterday's > chalk writes really poorly on today's white boards. If you don't want to be > left behind you have to keep on evolving. > > After all, where would we be today if dial-up providers decided that it was > too much work to use dynamically allocated IP addresses and kept on giving > each user their own IP address? > > However, name-based virtual hosts aren't exactly a new thing. Many large > web hosters have been using name-based virtual hosts for a while now, so > would any of those companies mind sharing a little wisdom on how this can be > done? > > Thanks, > > Alec > > -- > Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com > Staff Scientist > CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com > "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 04:46:04 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id EAA24328 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 04:35:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id EAA24323; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 04:35:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA12365; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 04:35:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from freeside.fc.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA64586; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 03:34:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200009120834.DAA64586@freeside.fc.net> To: Mury cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 Sep 2000 01:52:36 CDT." Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 03:34:57 -0500 From: Jeremy Porter Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR I don't think Alec has called anyone whiners. The policy has been discussed and as presented does not change the business climate for for existing users of addresses. For new assignments I quote: http://www.arin.net/announcements/policy_changes.html Exceptions may be made for ISPs that provide justification for requiring static addresses. ARIN will determine, on a case-by-case basis, whether an exception is appropriate. If you are sure that your use of one IP per Host is justfiable, then you should have no problem getting an exception approved. Perhaps if you are complaining maybe you don't feel that your use has technical merit? "Back in the day" when I ran an ISP and Web hosting business for a living, we used single IPs for WWW (http 1.1 didn't exist), assigned static IPs to all customers, etc. When new technologies came about and policies changed, we followed. We ended up renumber those static customers and some significiant business cost, because it was the right thing to do. It wasn't easy, the customers didn't like it, it made accounting and access control harder. With that said, theses issues were discussed at the ARIN policy meeting, and there weren't huge objections, so the conclusion was reached that there were significant objectors. Luckily there is a meeting in just a few weeks, where you are invited to discusse it more, and perhaps better wording can be determined that would allow existing operations to switch to more efficient technologies in a reasonable time frame, while still encouraging better utilization of IP addressing. I'm sure if several vocal www hosting business pushed for changed wording that still encouraged better utilization, that it would be considered. >From my recollection of the last ARIN meeting there was a significant lack of input from WWW hosting companies, as there were only a handful present. "Whining" (your words) about it on the mailing list might not be enough. Also I'd think you find Alec would be more than willing to help address any technical issues you might find, but telling him "math is hard" isn't likely to win you much, and personal attacks, will likely just be ignored, as he's been doing this long enough to not take the "bait". In message , Mury writes: > >Dear Alec, > >Since you basically called those of us pointing out some real issues >"whiners," I took the liberty of finding out a little bit more about >you. It looks like you are probably a fairly bright person, probably a >lot smarter than me. From looking at your web site though and reading >your comments below I question how much you really understand what you are >talking about when you trivialize some of the issues that have been >brought up. > >I also find it interesting that in your presentation to the 11th NANOG >meeting that you did with Avi Freedman (Isn't he working for Digital >Island now? Or one of the other distributed content providers) you are >supporting a technology that not only assigns an IP address to a web site >but assigns multiple IP addresses to a single site. Perhaps I didn't >decipher your presentation correctly, but it sure seems like you are >supporting performance/service level issues above and beyond IP >conservation. Ah, I hear it coming, that each distributed node can handle >multiple distributed sites off of a single IP. Very true. Do you know >what the ratio of managed sites to in-service systems is? How many >locations is Akamai in? I really don't know what the IP "waste" ratio is. >But the point is you are supporting performance at the expense of IP >addresses however large or small that may be. > >In addition, you even argue against yourself. You say, "For example, >don't do all of the parsing at once at the end of the day; modify the >server to keep a running tally of a customer's usage and have it write >that alone to a file on the disk every time it changes. Far more >efficient. That's just off the top of my head, and probably not a really >efficient way to do it." > >What?! How can it be *far more efficient* and then in the next line it's >*not a really efficient*" Can you see why I'm not very thrilled with your >off the cuff and seemingly inexperienced comments? > >By making light of some real issues that were brought up it sure seems >like your statements are hypocritical. Now like I said, I'm not the >smartest guy out here, so if I've badly misrepresented things I apologize >in advance. > >Bottom line, for every one out there saying it's no big deal to do single >IP virtual hosting I would like to see a solution that does not sacrifice >reliability, accountability, quality of service, and functionality. I >hate it when people (even smart people) start voicing opinions on things >they don't understand. > >I'm also not stubborn. I'm not running things the way I do because it's >my way, but because they work, they are scalable, they are functionable, >and we have zero down time. I've tried Microsoft IIS. It doesn't work. >Well doh, of course it works, but not for a company that demands uptime >and security and a fast and simple database. I have to reboot co-located >IIS machines all the time. My BSDI/Apache/MySQL/Perl/PHP/Raven boxes have >had zero downtime in the last 3 years. That is not an invitation to hack >or DOS my network. But thanks for thinking about me. > >And like I said before, when appropriate we have assigned multiple sites >to a single IP. We actually do it by sending all requests into a CGI >script that grabs the HTTP_HOST env variable and creates the customized >web site on the fly with MySQL. So yes, we are trying to conserve IP >addresses, we are not greedy, whiny bastards trying to screw the Internet >up for everyone else. > >For those of you running Apache that want to know how to do it the right >way, go to: http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html > >Cool! Now we all know how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what >about all those HTTP/1.0 browsers!? You don't think they exist any >more? Check this out. In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of >one server from a selective time period. All my logs files are in the >www.domain.com format. Here are my commands and results: > >webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l > 400441 >webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l > 375412 > >48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my customers' sites used >HTTP/1.0. For the uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does >NOT support name based hosting. > >Can I tell all my customers to call you when their online business drops >by almost 50%. By the way, can you use a shared IP for secure server >certificates? > >Some more thoughts... > >Look at some of the new comers to the tech scene, Keynote, Akamai, >Speedera, Digital Island, etc. These company's success show how important >it is to the world to have fast, reliable, and secure web sites. Quality >of Service (in its broad definition) is paramount. And if you don't >believe that you can make a fortune by shorting the stock in those >companies. > >I don't want to see any more comments that I should be doing things >smarter and better. I want to see explanations of how I can accomplish >the things that you say are so easy. Like I said I'm not stubborn... show >me the way. If you can't, then please refrain from making popular >political statements that don't affect YOUR business and your customers' >business. > >There's my not so bright, whiny, long-winded $10 worth. > >Mury >GoldenGate Internet Services > >PS. If you are such an advocate for IP conservation why do you have a >whole block? I can't tell how many IPs you are wasting because your >provider has not swipped your block. But you have multiple web sites >running on multiple IPs! What's your excuse? > >Name: gw1.hilander.com >Address: 216.241.32.33 > >Name: virthost.hilander.com >Address: 216.241.32.35 > >Name: ramirez.hilander.com >Address: 216.241.32.34 > >Pretty interesting web sites I might add. > >If you are going to call someone a whiner you better have your own act >together. The hypocrisy is killing me. > >Like I said, I'm sure you are smarter than me, but stick to what you know. > > >On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > >> Mury wrote: >> > >> > Yikes! >> > >> > Have you ever tried to parse up to 1000 log files per system, with some of >> > them around 500MB in size. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds. >> >> It is if you change how you write and parse your logs. >> >> > >> > For some people it's feasable, but for most of us we *need* IP based >> > accounting. >> > >> > By the way, we are setup to do a large number of URL's pointed at a single >> > IP for some hosting applications, but for the majority of our sites, it is >> > not an option. >> >> Can't say that I have tried it. However at the same time I can think of >> quite a few ways to make the task far easier and faster. For example, don't >> do all of the parsing at once at the end of the day; modify the server to > keep a running tally of a customer's usage and have it write that alone to a >> file on the disk every time it changes. Far more efficient. >> >> That's just off the top of my head, and probably not a really efficient way >> to do it. My point is that the Internet is made up of a lot of smart people >> who are more than capable of solving these issues if they feel like it. >> Whining about how today's methods of accounting won't work with tomorrow's >> methods of virtual hosting is a lot like complaining about how yesterday's >> chalk writes really poorly on today's white boards. If you don't want to be >> left behind you have to keep on evolving. >> >> After all, where would we be today if dial-up providers decided that it was >> too much work to use dynamically allocated IP addresses and kept on giving >> each user their own IP address? >> >> However, name-based virtual hosts aren't exactly a new thing. Many large >> web hosters have been using name-based virtual hosts for a while now, so >> would any of those companies mind sharing a little wisdom on how this can be >> done? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Alec >> >> -- >> Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com >> Staff Scientist >> CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com >> "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" >> > > --- jerry@fc.net 512-519-6193 www.wayport.net 8303 Mopac Expressway Suite A300, Austin Tx. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 09:30:53 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA12374 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:20:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA12364 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:20:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA20253 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:20:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 8EBA23DC2; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:20:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:20:08 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000912082008.A93972@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BD69B2.A7615A77@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39BD69B2.A7615A77@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:24:34PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:24:34PM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Matt Bailey wrote: > > > > For those of us that do accounting via IP how do you expect us to us Name > > Based Virtuals? Until there is a method for accounting all traffic to a > > domain name without using IP I see this as totally unreasonable. We base all > > of our security filters and traffic filters on a customers IP assigned to > > them. We also have hardware that can not support name based virtuals and > > thus has a NIC card for each site? Explain IN DETAIL the method used to > > account for these in our requests. > > How about parsing access logs? Doesn't work if you are billing for bandwidth... -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 09:34:28 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA12820 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:25:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA12816 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:25:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA24641 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:25:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id F345A3DC2; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:25:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:25:54 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: Ron Hensley Cc: Mike Horwath , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000912082554.B93972@Geeks.ORG> References: <20000911175940.A89979@Geeks.ORG> <010a01c01c50$35be4fc0$f96af0d8@cross> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <010a01c01c50$35be4fc0$f96af0d8@cross>; from ronh@INTERCOM.NET on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:27:16PM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:27:16PM -0400, Ron Hensley wrote: > Couldn't this be implemented on the WWW server however? With NT's IIS for > example, or Apache > under any platform you can of course have 1000 WWW domain sites all sharing > one IP Address > bound to the NIC Card. While some monitoring software my only look at the ip > addresses and thus cant differentiate, > the WWW server itself sorts the connections based, not on the IP Address, > but rather on the content in the packets. > More to the point, on the URL being requested. > > Based on that, each WWW site generates its own unique log files for that > site. > Thus software can be written to total the byte counts of the hits to that > WWW site. WebTrends comes > to mind though it doesn't produce billing data of course. > > Also any machine sitting on the network, like a firewall, that's gathering > statistics on bandwidth by IP Address > could just as easily inspect the data payload and generate statistics based > on that content of the given WWW site. > Yes I realize that would be processor intensive, however firewalls do that > now to look for attack signatures and the like. > > To make it short, it sounds like your asking to use 30,000 ip addresses for > 30,000 WWW sites, when you only > need one, because your software vendor has written bad billing software that > doesn't support virtual WWW hosts > sharing the same ip address. Oh my god, this has gotta be one of the worst things you could ask someone to do. Go and buy all this gear (many thousands of dollars) just so you can do the billing you have been doing that costs pennies per year to do. It would be cheaper to put each web site on its own server (or hell, put each on its own interface card) than to purchase the kinds of hardware needed to do what we already do with current hardware and software. With PC hardare going for a couple hundred bux, I could put each web site on its own server. Sure, I would run out of equipment room space someday, but that day isn't for some time. The days of running out of IP addresses is basically over. Yes, there is still a crunch, but with IPv6 around the corner (haha), this issue will be moot in the foreseeable future. This is an absolutely silly rule that penalizes ANYONE that bills for actual bandwidth used and not for number of bytes transferred. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 09:37:20 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA12949 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:28:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA12932 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:28:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23257 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:28:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 698773DC2; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:27:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:27:47 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: Dean Waters Cc: Mike Horwath , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000912082747.C93972@Geeks.ORG> References: <20000911175940.A89979@Geeks.ORG> <02fe01c01c51$6fa22580$e421340a@mgc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <02fe01c01c51$6fa22580$e421340a@mgc.com>; from dwaters@MPowercom.net on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:35:59PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:35:59PM -0700, Dean Waters wrote: > Why not get your bandwidth numbers from your access logs? Because that counts bytes transferred. Tell me how easy it would be to write code to take the access logs and correlate to bandwidth used over a month, then tell me what it would take to produce this data (which is required for billing) so that it looks like MRTG (so our customers can see their utilization), and can do it for 1500 web sites at over 8GB a day of logs, and be done doing that in a reasonable time (like the same day, or better yet, real time). And do it without having to purchase any other hardware. > Email: dwaters@MPowercom.net > Phone: 702-310-4206 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Horwath" > To: "Matt Bailey" > Cc: > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 3:59 PM > Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification > > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:32:07PM -0400, Matt Bailey wrote: > > > For those of us that do accounting via IP how do you expect us to us > > > Name Based Virtuals? Until there is a method for accounting all > > > traffic to a domain name without using IP I see this as totally > > > unreasonable. We base all of our security filters and traffic > > > filters on a customers IP assigned to them. We also have hardware > > > that can not support name based virtuals and thus has a NIC card for > > > each site? Explain IN DETAIL the method used to account for these in > > > our requests. > > > > I concur! > > > > We bill via bandwidth and we need a way to track usage over a period > > of time so we can bill for peak usage. > > > > -- > > Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG > > Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 > > Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself > > through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. > > > > > > -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 09:41:36 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA13221 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:32:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA13217 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:32:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA29380 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:32:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 740FA3DC2; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:32:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:32:05 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: Mury Cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000912083205.D93972@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BD69B2.A7615A77@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mury@goldengate.net on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:01:10PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:01:10PM -0500, Mury wrote: > > Yikes! > > Have you ever tried to parse up to 1000 log files per system, with some of > them around 500MB in size. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds. > > For some people it's feasable, but for most of us we *need* IP based > accounting. > > By the way, we are setup to do a large number of URL's pointed at a single > IP for some hosting applications, but for the majority of our sites, it is > not an option. Same here. Where we could get away with header parsing, we have. Where we can not, we must use an IP, and if we need to, we will put up a bunch of other shit as well since 99.9% of the customers we do web hosting for also get all of their email from us, we can just run virtual servers for them for their mail on their 'dedicated IP'. No biggie, the mail cluster is going in behind loadbalancers with the web boxes, this will be easy. > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > > > > > How about parsing access logs? > > > > Alec > > > > -- > > Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com > > Staff Scientist > > CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com > > "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" > > > > -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 09:45:00 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA13439 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:36:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA13428; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:36:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA27591; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:36:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 39A143DC2; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:36:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:36:04 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000912083604.E93972@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BD94F7.DD143DBE@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39BD94F7.DD143DBE@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:29:11PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:29:11PM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Mury wrote: > > > > Yikes! > > > > Have you ever tried to parse up to 1000 log files per system, with some of > > them around 500MB in size. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds. > > It is if you change how you write and parse your logs. Well, up his numbers by a full factor and you will see it is again not feasible. > > For some people it's feasable, but for most of us we *need* IP based > > accounting. > > > > By the way, we are setup to do a large number of URL's pointed at a single > > IP for some hosting applications, but for the majority of our sites, it is > > not an option. > > Can't say that I have tried it. However at the same time I can > think of quite a few ways to make the task far easier and faster. > For example, don't do all of the parsing at once at the end of the > day; modify the server to keep a running tally of a customer's usage > and have it write that alone to a file on the disk every time it > changes. Far more efficient. And requires even more hacking and more CPU power to manage, continue. > That's just off the top of my head, and probably not a really > efficient way to do it. My point is that the Internet is made up of > a lot of smart people who are more than capable of solving these > issues if they feel like it. Whining about how today's methods of > accounting won't work with tomorrow's methods of virtual hosting is > a lot like complaining about how yesterday's chalk writes really > poorly on today's white boards. If you don't want to be left behind > you have to keep on evolving. Thing is, 'tomorrows way of web hosting' really is tomorrow. Or don't you get it? > After all, where would we be today if dial-up providers decided that > it was too much work to use dynamically allocated IP addresses and > kept on giving each user their own IP address? But why not put all dialups behind NAT, I mean, hell, fuck'em, they don't need to play games on the 'net, do Netmeeting, ICQ and such, and this would save me a couple thousand IPs and would save UUNET (and other big boys) /14s and more of IP space. > However, name-based virtual hosts aren't exactly a new thing. Many > large web hosters have been using name-based virtual hosts for a > while now, so would any of those companies mind sharing a little > wisdom on how this can be done? Yep, it isn't new and many of us use name based virtual hosting techniques when we can. Thing is, it doesn't work all the time. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 10:10:58 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA15648 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:00:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA15569; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:59:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10659; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:59:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 932853DC2; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:59:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:59:35 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: Jeremy Porter Cc: Mury , "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000912085935.F93972@Geeks.ORG> References: <200009120834.DAA64586@freeside.fc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009120834.DAA64586@freeside.fc.net>; from jerry@fc.net on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 03:34:57AM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 03:34:57AM -0500, Jeremy Porter wrote: > > I don't think Alec has called anyone whiners. ...Whining about how today's methods of accounting won't work with tomorrow's methods of virtual hosting is a lot like complaining about how yesterday's... Yah, we are whining I guess. > The policy has been discussed and as presented does not change the > business climate for for existing users of addresses. For new > assignments I quote: But I am an existing user of addresses but I now mush change going forward. Yah, that sounds fun, inefficient, timeconsuming, and expensive. Not everyone runs domains for parents for their children to show off their pictures of their vacation. Some of us actually host some of the sites you yourself are visiting on a regular basis that generate logs that are unparsable using current CPUs of today. These same sites are also cylic in their usage of bandwidth (and we all pay for bandwidth right?), so we much charge them accordingly for their peak utilization (or thereabouts). Writing code to do this would be a bitch, would tear apart todays CPUs, and would require us to purchase, at this rate, multiple computers per web site just to do log parsing. > If you are sure that your use of one IP per Host is justfiable, then > you should have no problem getting an exception approved. When was the last time you got IP addresses? We had a /16 and a /17, I went to request space (after we were down to under 5 /24s left) and it took almost 2 weeks (by which time we had burned all but 1 /24 out of that space). And the issue wasn't SWIPing at all, we were down with that... So, I submit for more addressing, which already takes 2 weeks at a minimum but now we must get 'approval' for on a case by case basis, this could take 2-6 weeks at a minimum. Which would cause us to find ways around this policy decision, ways that are 100% legit. 75-80% of our customers already use NAT and DMZs, we have been stingy with address space and we are very very accountable for that space. This new ruling doesn't help us or the 'net one bit and in fact causes hording to happen all over again. I have customers with a very large blocks assigned to them, yet their utilization of these blocks is under 10%. These IP blocks were assigned to them by the old interNIC back when you could get a /20 just by asking. If there is worry about addressing, why not write code to ping IP addresses and start investigating where the hell they all are. Isn't that why we pay ARIN for space? So that it can be managed? Manage the fucking IP space, find the wasters out there and get IP space back. Get off the backs of providers and overall general good 'netizens who are doing what they can to both conserve IP wastage and still be a business on the 'net. > "Back in the day" when I ran an ISP and Web hosting business for a living, > we used single IPs for WWW (http 1.1 didn't exist), assigned static > IPs to all customers, etc. When new technologies came about > and policies changed, we followed. We ended up renumber those static > customers and some significiant business cost, because it was the > right thing to do. It wasn't easy, the customers didn't like it, > it made accounting and access control harder. It has been shown that HTTP/1.0 requests account for over 45% of the requests. If needed, I'll grep my logs as well. It isn't just 'cost of change', it is just cost for the sake of cost. Review my statements above - ARIN should be reclaiming wasted IP space from the 'old users' of the 'net who have large blocks but aren't using them. > With that said, theses issues were discussed at the ARIN policy > meeting, and there weren't huge objections, so the conclusion was > reached that there were significant objectors. Luckily there is a > meeting in just a few weeks, where you are invited to discusse it > more, and perhaps better wording can be determined that would allow > existing operations to switch to more efficient technologies in a > reasonable time frame, while still encouraging better utilization of > IP addressing. Or start gathering IP space from the wasters while coming up with a plan that will force the 'net in general to change to 100% HTTP/1.1 requests. If everyone can agree on this, then hell, I'll convert every one of my sites today, buy the few hundred thousand in CPU I will need to do billing, and shut the hell up. But while I see this hypocracy continue I can't be on the side of you or ARIN for this decision. As far as going to yet another meeting... YUCK. Might be time to hire someone whose sole job at my company is to go to meetings and fight on the side of common sense. > I'm sure if several vocal www hosting business pushed for changed > wording that still encouraged better utilization, that it would be > considered. And how many of those web hosting businesses actually get space from ARIN and not their provider? > From my recollection of the last ARIN meeting there was a > significant lack of input from WWW hosting companies, as there were > only a handful present. You are making my point. > "Whining" (your words) about it on the mailing list might not be > enough. Also I'd think you find Alec would be more than willing to > help address any technical issues you might find, but telling him > "math is hard" isn't likely to win you much, and personal attacks, > will likely just be ignored, as he's been doing this long enough to > not take the "bait". You took the bait.. :) -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-ppml@arin.net Tue Sep 12 10:56:41 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA21321 for ppml-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:52:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA21215; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:52:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10251; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:52:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13YrNt-0004qc-00; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:50:05 -0600 Message-ID: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:50:05 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mury CC: Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ppml@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Mury wrote: > > I also find it interesting that in your presentation to the 11th NANOG > meeting that you did with Avi Freedman (Isn't he working for Digital > Island now? Or one of the other distributed content providers) you are > supporting a technology that not only assigns an IP address to a web site > but assigns multiple IP addresses to a single site. Perhaps I didn't > decipher your presentation correctly, but it sure seems like you are > supporting performance/service level issues above and beyond IP > conservation. Ah, I hear it coming, that each distributed node can handle > multiple distributed sites off of a single IP. Very true. Do you know > what the ratio of managed sites to in-service systems is? How many > locations is Akamai in? I really don't know what the IP "waste" ratio is. > But the point is you are supporting performance at the expense of IP > addresses however large or small that may be. I hardly see what a single presentation I did with Avi several years ago has to do with the issue at hand. As it happens, I can count on one hand the number of conversations I've had with Avi this year. > > In addition, you even argue against yourself. You say, "For example, > don't do all of the parsing at once at the end of the day; modify the > server to keep a running tally of a customer's usage and have it write > that alone to a file on the disk every time it changes. Far more > efficient. That's just off the top of my head, and probably not a really > efficient way to do it." > > What?! How can it be *far more efficient* and then in the next line it's > *not a really efficient*" Can you see why I'm not very thrilled with your > off the cuff and seemingly inexperienced comments? I stand by what I said. There is 'far more efficient' which is (sometimes) quite different from 'optimally efficient'. The fact that I may not have experience with specifically parsing WWW log files by no means implies that I have no experience doing that sort of thing in other applications. See, standard WWW transfer logs have tons of data in them that does not relate to calculating bandwidth utilization. That extra data all has to be looked at before the bandwidth numbers can even be retrieved. Let's look at a line of a standard Apache transfer log: 128.220.221.16 - - [05/Mar/1998:18:20:32 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 1195 Now depending on how you count there are 6 fields on that one line of log file, and the number of bytes transfered number is the very last field. So that means that one way or another you need to look at each of the fields in the file and check if it's the right one before you can even get the appropriate data. I have to agree that parsing that logfile for bandwidth utilization is a major pain. But what if we changed the log file format to just look like this: 128.220.221.16 1195 Or perhaps an even better way would be to write over the same line in the file again and again every time, so your utilization program just has to look at the file once to see how much has been used. Granted you can't just use Apache's mod_log_config for that, but it isn't a lot more work than that. My second statement about it not being a 'really efficient way to do it' meant to say that the 30 seconds I spent thinking of how to make the parsing process more efficient was probably not sufficient to come up with the optimal solution. Perhaps I should have said 'probably not optimally efficient' instead. Sorry about that. > > By making light of some real issues that were brought up it sure seems > like your statements are hypocritical. Now like I said, I'm not the > smartest guy out here, so if I've badly misrepresented things I apologize > in advance. I didn't mean to say it was no big deal. Making the changes I proposed would certainly take some work. However, contrary to what some other people said, the problem is not insoluble. My point was that I can't stand excuses for doing 'the right thing', especially when people insist on working against an organization that is only trying to help. ARIN is not making these policy changes to make everybodys' lives more difficult. ARIN is making the changes because it has a responsibility to stretch IP space in its region of the world as far as possible. Also, as I tried to say before people on the 'net have come up with some truly brilliant ways to deal with the issues that face us when they need to. I really think it would be a far better use of our time here if we all put our heads together to try and figure out a feasible way for everybody to use name-based virutal hosts in as many applications as possible than arguing about how hard it is. Then, if we as a group find that it is truly not possible then we can state that (from experience, as opposed to just from theoretical conjecture) at the next ARIN meeting and recommend an appropriate policy change. > > Bottom line, for every one out there saying it's no big deal to do single > IP virtual hosting I would like to see a solution that does not sacrifice > reliability, accountability, quality of service, and functionality. I > hate it when people (even smart people) start voicing opinions on things > they don't understand. You may think that just because I don't run a web hosting outfit today I don't understand the issues, and you're welcome to think that. It is true that I don't know how every single web hosting outfit out there accounts for usage, but I daresay you probably don't know that either. You know how you do things, and that's all you need to know. This is the exact reason why I or you alone are not responsible for creating ARIN policies. It is done by member participation in ARIN. And the general idea is that ARIN and its members benefit from having a hand in shaping what happens to IP allocation policy. Speaking to your request for a solution to your accounting woes, I really don't think you want that from ARIN. See, if that happens then people will start screaming about how ARIN dictates the way people must do business, which gets into another rat-hole that we really don't want to go down. There are many ways to skin this cat. So I will say again, instead of arguing with me about how easy or not easy this problem is to deal with, why don't we try actually solving the issues? And if they are not solvable then we will know we have tried our best and we can report those findings at the next ARIN meeting in an effort to get the recently adopted policy changed. And FYI, demanding a solution to your specific problem without providing any suggestions of your own is not the best way to engage help from others. > > I'm also not stubborn. I'm not running things the way I do because it's > my way, but because they work, they are scalable, they are functionable, > and we have zero down time. I've tried Microsoft IIS. It doesn't work. > Well doh, of course it works, but not for a company that demands uptime > and security and a fast and simple database. I have to reboot co-located > IIS machines all the time. My BSDI/Apache/MySQL/Perl/PHP/Raven boxes have > had zero downtime in the last 3 years. That is not an invitation to hack > or DOS my network. But thanks for thinking about me. Not a bad setup. I don't really see what I said before would not apply to this setup. > > And like I said before, when appropriate we have assigned multiple sites > to a single IP. We actually do it by sending all requests into a CGI > script that grabs the HTTP_HOST env variable and creates the customized > web site on the fly with MySQL. So yes, we are trying to conserve IP > addresses, we are not greedy, whiny bastards trying to screw the Internet > up for everyone else. Nobody ever said you were, and I truly resent having words put into my mouth. Please refrain from doing so in the future. If you recall, I was addressing a specific post where a person was demanding specific solutions to every problem that this policy change would be causing. I, for one, don't respond well to demands for help. And as I also said, other people have solved these problems, and even think that the policy was a pretty good idea. In fact some of them operate some of the largest web farms in the world. So regardless of how little or much I may know about web hosting, there are people out there who know far more than both of us about it who have managed to make things work. > > Cool! Now we all know how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what > about all those HTTP/1.0 browsers!? You don't think they exist any > more? Check this out. In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of > one server from a selective time period. All my logs files are in the > www.domain.com format. Here are my commands and results: > > webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l > 400441 > webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l > 375412 > > 48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my customers' sites used > HTTP/1.0. For the uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does > NOT support name based hosting. That's the first number I've seen on the subject that is greater that 2%, and I will confess it does concern me a great deal. Does anybody else have any numbers they'd like to share? > > Can I tell all my customers to call you when their online business drops > by almost 50%. By the way, can you use a shared IP for secure server > certificates? No, you can't, which is why there are exceptions to the policy. Granted there isn't a specific exception for SSL, which I think is one place where the group (myself included) erred in Calgary last March. > > I don't want to see any more comments that I should be doing things > smarter and better. I want to see explanations of how I can accomplish > the things that you say are so easy. Like I said I'm not stubborn... show > me the way. If you can't, then please refrain from making popular > political statements that don't affect YOUR business and your customers' > business. I never meant to trivialize the changes. I merely meant to point out to those who said they were not only non-trivial but were impossible that in fact it was not impossible. > > PS. If you are such an advocate for IP conservation why do you have a > whole block? I can't tell how many IPs you are wasting because your > provider has not swipped your block. But you have multiple web sites > running on multiple IPs! What's your excuse? > > Name: gw1.hilander.com > Address: 216.241.32.33 This is actually its own machine. > > Name: virthost.hilander.com > Address: 216.241.32.35 > > Name: ramirez.hilander.com > Address: 216.241.32.34 Hey, nobody's perfect. I'll have to look into changing that. Thanks for pointing it out. > > Pretty interesting web sites I might add. Thanks for looking around, I spent years writing it. Look, bottom line is that name-based virtual hosts have the ability to stretch our IP utilization even further (and the way IPv6 is looking means we'll really need to do this). Moreover, if you think the name-based virtual hosting policy should be changed or repealed, then by all means start participating in the process to make that happen. And finally, there may well be some websites out there that cannot be handled any way except for giving them their own IP address. I don't know this for sure, but I'd say it's a pretty good guess. Similarly, there are some dial-up users out there who insist on having a static IP address. ISPs are free to do that, _JUST AS LONG AS MOST OF THEIR LOW-END CLIENTS USE DYNAMIC IP ADDRESSES_. This can easily be extended to virtual hosting. And I agree that this should be stated specifically, but I really think ARIN's true intent was to change the default mom-and-pop hosting account from a dedicated IP address to a name-based virtual host. So perhaps the policy should be re-worded to state that for providers who sell 'cheap' web-hosting for domains that get relatively few hits per month they should use name-based virtual hosting for those clients? From what I recall from the discussion in Calgary those were the accounts the policy was targeted at... Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-ppml@arin.net Tue Sep 12 10:58:31 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA21817 for ppml-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:55:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA21813; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:55:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05840; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:55:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13YrSw-0004rF-00; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:55:18 -0600 Message-ID: <39BE43D6.CE7FB798@hilander.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:55:18 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Horwath CC: Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: <39BD94F7.DD143DBE@hilander.com> <20000912083604.E93972@Geeks.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ppml@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Mike Horwath wrote: > > Thing is, 'tomorrows way of web hosting' really is tomorrow. > > Or don't you get it? I don't think I do, since I'm not sure what you're getting at. > > But why not put all dialups behind NAT, I mean, hell, fuck'em, they > don't need to play games on the 'net, do Netmeeting, ICQ and such, and > this would save me a couple thousand IPs and would save UUNET (and > other big boys) /14s and more of IP space. Your sarcasm notwithstanding, I think the issues of placing dialup (or any end-users for that matter) behind a NAT out-number the issues of using name-based virtual hosting for entry-level web accounts. > > Yep, it isn't new and many of us use name based virtual hosting > techniques when we can. > > Thing is, it doesn't work all the time. I agree with you 100% on that count. And I think the ARIN policy should be re-worded so that it is more flexible. See, the IP 'waste' that the membership was specifically concerned about when crafting this policy is the mom-and-pop shops that only get a few thousand hits per month and don't use SSL for their site. There are tens of thousands of those sites out there now (probably more) and there is no reason in the world why they shouldn't be on name-based virtual hosts. Then, there are some sites that are so huge that for a variety of reasons it is just unfeasible to put them on name-based virtual hosts. I think the policy should be re-crafted to objectively define that in some way. The point of my previous posts was to point out that there are ways to move the name-based/IP-based line in the sand further out so that we can get even better IP utilization. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 11:06:09 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA22465 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:57:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA22461 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:57:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07419 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:57:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13YrUy-0004rQ-00; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:57:24 -0600 Message-ID: <39BE4454.EEB897A5@hilander.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:57:24 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Horwath CC: Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: <39BD69B2.A7615A77@hilander.com> <20000912083205.D93972@Geeks.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Mike Horwath wrote: > > Same here. > > Where we could get away with header parsing, we have. > > Where we can not, we must use an IP, and if we need to, we will put up > a bunch of other shit as well since 99.9% of the customers we do web > hosting for also get all of their email from us, we can just run > virtual servers for them for their mail on their 'dedicated IP'. No > biggie, the mail cluster is going in behind loadbalancers with the web > boxes, this will be easy. And I think that's a great setup. Just out of curiosity, would you mind sharing how large a website you can put on a name-based virtual host before you have to move it elsewhere? Also, for e-mail, have you tried giving users longer POP usernames? (like user@domain.com?) I know it isn't a perfect solution, but I've seen lots of places doing that and it seems to work perfectly well. I do seem to recall some older versions of Eudora over-load the @ operator as a delimiter, but I think they've fixed that... Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 11:06:28 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA22393 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:57:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA21813; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:55:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05840; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:55:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13YrSw-0004rF-00; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:55:18 -0600 Message-ID: <39BE43D6.CE7FB798@hilander.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:55:18 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Horwath CC: Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: <39BD94F7.DD143DBE@hilander.com> <20000912083604.E93972@Geeks.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Mike Horwath wrote: > > Thing is, 'tomorrows way of web hosting' really is tomorrow. > > Or don't you get it? I don't think I do, since I'm not sure what you're getting at. > > But why not put all dialups behind NAT, I mean, hell, fuck'em, they > don't need to play games on the 'net, do Netmeeting, ICQ and such, and > this would save me a couple thousand IPs and would save UUNET (and > other big boys) /14s and more of IP space. Your sarcasm notwithstanding, I think the issues of placing dialup (or any end-users for that matter) behind a NAT out-number the issues of using name-based virtual hosting for entry-level web accounts. > > Yep, it isn't new and many of us use name based virtual hosting > techniques when we can. > > Thing is, it doesn't work all the time. I agree with you 100% on that count. And I think the ARIN policy should be re-worded so that it is more flexible. See, the IP 'waste' that the membership was specifically concerned about when crafting this policy is the mom-and-pop shops that only get a few thousand hits per month and don't use SSL for their site. There are tens of thousands of those sites out there now (probably more) and there is no reason in the world why they shouldn't be on name-based virtual hosts. Then, there are some sites that are so huge that for a variety of reasons it is just unfeasible to put them on name-based virtual hosts. I think the policy should be re-crafted to objectively define that in some way. The point of my previous posts was to point out that there are ways to move the name-based/IP-based line in the sand further out so that we can get even better IP utilization. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 11:08:33 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA22852 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:58:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA22847 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:58:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA08301 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:58:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13YrW9-0004rY-00; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:58:37 -0600 Message-ID: <39BE449D.429682AB@hilander.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:58:37 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Horwath CC: Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: <39BD69B2.A7615A77@hilander.com> <20000912082008.A93972@Geeks.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Mike Horwath wrote: > > Doesn't work if you are billing for bandwidth... Hrm, I can see your point there (if you're billing based on 95th percentile as opposed to number of bytes transfered over a month). Does anybody know of any network devices that will operate on a flow basis and take apart the application layer headers to see what name-based host a user is going to? Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 11:19:06 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA25548 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:10:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA25490 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:09:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA20429 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:09:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 38901 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Sep 2000 15:08:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:08:38 -0700 From: Jon Rust To: Mury Cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000912080838.A32704@mail.vcnet.com> References: <39BD94F7.DD143DBE@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mury@goldengate.net on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:52:36AM -0500 X-Operating-System: http://www.freebsd.org/ Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:52:36AM -0500, Mury wrote: > > Cool! Now we all know how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what > about all those HTTP/1.0 browsers!? You don't think they exist any > more? Check this out. In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of > one server from a selective time period. All my logs files are in the > www.domain.com format. Here are my commands and results: > > webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l > 400441 > webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l > 375412 > > 48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my customers' sites used > HTTP/1.0. For the uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does > NOT support name based hosting. You're bending the truth here, quite a bit actually. The HTTP 1.0 proto may not support the Host: header, but browsers that are using HTTP 1.0 may very well support he Host: header. Oh, i don't know, a smallish browser called Netscape, v 2.0 or better, comes to mind. Grepping through my access log for today I see over 65,000 1.0 requests. 98% of those are to name-based virtual hosts (which is almost all i run anymore), and they all worked. jon From owner-ppml@arin.net Tue Sep 12 12:18:20 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA04437 for ppml-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:14:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA04391; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:14:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA28161; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:14:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13YsdS-00056x-00; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:10:14 -0600 Message-ID: <39BE5565.2D8ECBCC@hilander.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:10:13 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John A. Tamplin" CC: arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ppml@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR "John A. Tamplin" wrote: > > I suspect the rest of them would have similar results. > > We do high-volume (in terms of customers, not traffic) low-cost hosting > for small businesses under Cornerpost, where all of the pages are > generated dynamically out of a database using a custom web server. Only a > small number of customers have a domain name associated with it (the rest > get URLs like db.cornerpost.com/12567057007), and that all uses name-based > hosting. If an HTTP/1.0 request comes in without the identifier, they get > a "sorry, please upgrade your browser" message. When we started this, we > knew we were leaving out a large number of people with older browsers, but > this was the only way we could accomplish what we wanted in a scalable > fashion (people-wise as well as hardware). Fortunately, since relatively > few of these customers go to the trouble to get a domain name (although it is > increasing), it hasn't been an issue. Interesting numbers, although some other people have pointed out that some browsers that use HTTP/1.0 requests still send the Host: header as well. Is there an easy way to get numbers on that? > > For the more traditional hosting customers, we use IP-based hosting and > provide SMTP/POP/IMAP/FTP (including anonymous), and SSL if they pay for > that. It would require massive changes to our management tools, customer > setup, and business model to switch these to name-based hosting. No doubt; especially since today's methods of doing SSL require a unique IP. The policy allows for exceptions, and I hope we will be able to list some specific ones at the next meeting. If you don't mind sharing it, what percentage of your virtual hosts have these other services (SMTP/POP/IMAP/FTP/SSL)? I'm just curious (I'm curious what percentage of people want to pay for it). > In > addition, while if everyone did this it might spur those with older browsers > to upgrade (assuming they can -- some of them are using browsers on TV > set-top boxes, video game consoles, etc), if only some sites do this then > the customers will probably just go to other sites that still work. I doubt > customer paying for hosting want to lose even 10% of their customers, much > less 30-40%. Agreed, although if some of these older browsers are also sending Host: headers then it might not be as big an issue as it seems.... Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-ppml@arin.net Tue Sep 12 12:53:55 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA07624 for ppml-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:50:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA07610; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:50:32 -0400 (EDT) From: jlewis@lewis.org Received: from redhat1.mmaero.com (IDENT:root@redhat1.mmaero.com [208.152.224.2]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA18691; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:50:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (jlewis@localhost) by redhat1.mmaero.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA31722; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:49:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:49:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: jlewis@redhat1.mmaero.com To: Mury cc: arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ppml@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Mury wrote: > Cool! Now we all know how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what > about all those HTTP/1.0 browsers!? You don't think they exist any > more? Check this out. In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of > one server from a selective time period. All my logs files are in the > www.domain.com format. Here are my commands and results: > > webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l > 400441 > webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l > 375412 > > 48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my customers' sites used > HTTP/1.0. For the uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does > NOT support name based hosting. This is BS. My own personal domain is a name-based virtual host (not by choice, but due to necessity at the time it was setup), and 63% of the hits on it are logged at HTTP/1.0. They still get the right files. Many browsers that support name-based virtual hosting send requests as HTTP/1.0. Netscape 4.75 does. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 13:01:34 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA06990 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:40:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA06975 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:40:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.fullport.com (gandalf.fullport.com [63.68.194.2]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA28085 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:40:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from waldo.fullport.com [63.105.108.15] by smtp.fullport.com (SMTPD32-5.08) id ABA01C9014C; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:36:48 -0400 Message-ID: <003201c01cd6$0e9070a0$0f6c693f@fullport.com> From: "PSchroebel" Cc: "Mike Horwath" , "Matt Bailey" , References: <20000911175940.A89979@Geeks.ORG> <010a01c01c50$35be4fc0$f96af0d8@cross> <20000912082554.B93972@Geeks.ORG> Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:25:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR The key to Name based web hosting is using the nameservers that reside on that host. Whereas, a host is actually a machine not a www, ftp or pop or smtp sub-server. Therein, you are only limited to the number of virtual hosts by the host (machine's) ability. Apache uses 500 as a limit however we have over 1000 on one Linux box that has 4 cpu's and gig of ram. This is addressed in BIND VERSION 8.0 and it works. The inherent name servers do the parsing and it works just fine. In fact the newer rack mount web servers come ready for v-hosting. You only need to assign an IP when the customer needs a SSL or some other IP related point to point connection. Which usually invokes co-location and is another matter all together. The IIS with NT is a IP Hog and we have had disastrous problems with v-hosting on NT Servers. We push clients to Unix, Sun and Linux that support Microsoft's extensions. We have had problems with Cold Fusion's database and apps but, we are working on it. Of course there will always be an issue that a www site should have it own IP as this is what the customers expect. This will be the real challenge to over come. And here is their reason: If the dns fails then how do they get their site? On a v-host named based-you wont get their. If they have an IP mapped they will get to their site provide that the host has not failed. Another, issue that we see is the webhost customers with alarms on their sites. So let those Nameservers blink for an update and the phone ring off of the hook. Slave to the Machines....... Sincerely, Peter Schroebel paschroebel@erols.com pschroebel@fullport.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Horwath" To: "Ron Hensley" Cc: "Mike Horwath" ; "Matt Bailey" ; Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:25 AM Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:27:16PM -0400, Ron Hensley wrote: > Couldn't this be implemented on the WWW server however? With NT's IIS for > example, or Apache > under any platform you can of course have 1000 WWW domain sites all sharing > one IP Address > bound to the NIC Card. While some monitoring software my only look at the ip > addresses and thus cant differentiate, > the WWW server itself sorts the connections based, not on the IP Address, > but rather on the content in the packets. > More to the point, on the URL being requested. > > Based on that, each WWW site generates its own unique log files for that > site. > Thus software can be written to total the byte counts of the hits to that > WWW site. WebTrends comes > to mind though it doesn't produce billing data of course. > > Also any machine sitting on the network, like a firewall, that's gathering > statistics on bandwidth by IP Address > could just as easily inspect the data payload and generate statistics based > on that content of the given WWW site. > Yes I realize that would be processor intensive, however firewalls do that > now to look for attack signatures and the like. > > To make it short, it sounds like your asking to use 30,000 ip addresses for > 30,000 WWW sites, when you only > need one, because your software vendor has written bad billing software that > doesn't support virtual WWW hosts > sharing the same ip address. Oh my god, this has gotta be one of the worst things you could ask someone to do. Go and buy all this gear (many thousands of dollars) just so you can do the billing you have been doing that costs pennies per year to do. It would be cheaper to put each web site on its own server (or hell, put each on its own interface card) than to purchase the kinds of hardware needed to do what we already do with current hardware and software. With PC hardare going for a couple hundred bux, I could put each web site on its own server. Sure, I would run out of equipment room space someday, but that day isn't for some time. The days of running out of IP addresses is basically over. Yes, there is still a crunch, but with IPv6 around the corner (haha), this issue will be moot in the foreseeable future. This is an absolutely silly rule that penalizes ANYONE that bills for actual bandwidth used and not for number of bytes transferred. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-ppml@arin.net Tue Sep 12 13:02:37 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA07916 for ppml-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:56:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA07202; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:45:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15909; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:45:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA21540; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:36:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:44:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: Jeremy Porter cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <200009120834.DAA64586@freeside.fc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ppml@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jeremy Porter wrote: > > I don't think Alec has called anyone whiners. Jeremy, "Whining" was not my word. Please read his response to me more carefully, and I'll quote it here, so you don't have to scroll down: >> Whining about how today's methods of accounting won't work with >> tomorrow's methods of virtual hosting is a lot like complaining about It's pretty easy to disqualify someone's techincal issues by retorting with it's just whining. > The policy has been > discussed and as presented does not change the business climate for > for existing users of addresses. For new assignments I quote: > http://www.arin.net/announcements/policy_changes.html > Exceptions may be made for ISPs that provide justification for > requiring static addresses. ARIN will determine, on a case-by-case > basis, whether an exception is appropriate. > > If you are sure that your use of one IP per Host is justfiable, then > you should have no problem getting an exception approved. > Perhaps if you are complaining maybe you don't feel that your > use has technical merit? Here we go with just calling me a complainer again. Dear sir, do you know what an awful process it is to get more space from ARIN. I beleive the point is an exception should be a policy if in general you would have to grant more exceptions than not. If the hosting world is not quite ready for name based hosting why make most people fight to get exceptions? Shouldn't it be a policy? And don't get me wrong again, I can here it coming. I am concerned about wasted IP space. I'm not advocating wasting IP space just because it's an easier thing to do than conserve it. > "Back in the day" when I ran an ISP and Web hosting business for a living, > we used single IPs for WWW (http 1.1 didn't exist), assigned static > IPs to all customers, etc. When new technologies came about > and policies changed, we followed. We ended up renumber those static > customers and some significiant business cost, because it was the > right thing to do. It wasn't easy, the customers didn't like it, > it made accounting and access control harder. Of course, name one ISP that hasn't done that. I haven't run into any. > With that said, theses issues were discussed at the ARIN policy meeting, > and there weren't huge objections, so the conclusion was reached that > there were significant objectors. Luckily there is a meeting in > just a few weeks, where you are invited to discusse it more, and > perhaps better wording can be determined that would allow existing > operations to switch to more efficient technologies in a reasonable > time frame, while still encouraging better utilization of > IP addressing. Where is the meeting? Who shows up? Isn't emailing the group just as an acceptable way of communicating, or do I need to show up and be called a whiner in person? > I'm sure if several vocal www hosting business pushed for changed wording > that still encouraged better utilization, that it would be considered. > >From my recollection of the last ARIN meeting there was a significant > lack of input from WWW hosting companies, as there were only a handful > present. > > "Whining" (your words) Not my words. And I'm sick of being called a whiner. > about it on the mailing list might not be > enough. Also I'd think you find Alec would be more than willing > to help address any technical issues you might find, but telling him > "math is hard" isn't likely to win you much, and personal attacks, will > likely just be ignored, as he's been doing this long enough to not take > the "bait". Good lord, here's some more freakin bait. It's like you didn't even read my message. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services From owner-ppml@arin.net Tue Sep 12 13:14:43 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA09287 for ppml-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:09:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA08447; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:03:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13440; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:03:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05772; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:55:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:02:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: Jon Rust cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <20000912080838.A32704@mail.vcnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ppml@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR > You're bending the truth here, quite a bit actually. The HTTP 1.0 proto > may not support the Host: header, but browsers that are using HTTP 1.0 > may very well support he Host: header. Oh, i don't know, a smallish > browser called Netscape, v 2.0 or better, comes to mind. Grepping > through my access log for today I see over 65,000 1.0 requests. 98% of > those are to name-based virtual hosts (which is almost all i run > anymore), and they all worked. > > jon Good to know. Finally someone takes the time to correct me and not just call me a whiner. So, does anyone know a reliable source that keeps track of stats on browsers? If it isn't 50% that won't get to the web site, is it 10%? 5%? .0001%? Thanks. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 13:59:06 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA15484 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:48:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA15475 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:48:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19878 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:48:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13YuAk-0005ZK-00; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:48:42 -0600 Message-ID: <39BE6C7A.9C38B5D0@hilander.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:48:42 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bknicely@ONSITEACCESS.NET CC: Mike Horwath , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Brandon Knicely wrote: > > Take a look at Alteon(aton). Their newest code was supposed to scale much > better than some of the other implementations that are implemented in > software counters such as Xedia/Lucent. Their space is as an ethernet > server front end along with features such as http transparent redirection, > etc. Very interesting, I'll have to check that out. I hope more vendors start doing that sort of thing... Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 14:15:58 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA17764 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:05:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA17718; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:04:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01541; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:04:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA04899; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:54:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:01:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: "Alec H. Peterson" cc: Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR > I hardly see what a single presentation I did with Avi several years ago has > to do with the issue at hand. As it happens, I can count on one hand the > number of conversations I've had with Avi this year. Ummm, it's what you are using one of our IPs for to promote. It's on one of your multiple web servers. If it's not important to you any more, perhaps you should do some cleaning up and return some IPs. > The fact that I may not have experience with specifically parsing WWW log > files by no means implies that I have no experience doing that sort of thing > in other applications. See, standard WWW transfer logs have tons of data in > them that does not relate to calculating bandwidth utilization. That extra > data all has to be looked at before the bandwidth numbers can even be > retrieved. Let's look at a line of a standard Apache transfer log: > > 128.220.221.16 - - [05/Mar/1998:18:20:32 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 1195 > > Now depending on how you count there are 6 fields on that one line of log > file, and the number of bytes transfered number is the very last field. So > that means that one way or another you need to look at each of the fields in > the file and check if it's the right one before you can even get the > appropriate data. I have to agree that parsing that logfile for bandwidth > utilization is a major pain. > > But what if we changed the log file format to just look like this: > > 128.220.221.16 1195 > > Or perhaps an even better way would be to write over the same line in the > file again and again every time, so your utilization program just has to > look at the file once to see how much has been used. Granted you can't just > use Apache's mod_log_config for that, but it isn't a lot more work than > that. You know I agree with you on most of what you are getting at, but I need to keep most of that log file anyway. Customers sometimes need to see where there traffic is coming from and what pages they are hitting, so if I need to log all that information it should go to the same file, so I don't double the amount of writes I need for each request. These days we spend almost the same amount of time explaining people's web statistics as we do configuring their modems. That information is important to them. > My second statement about it not being a 'really efficient way to do it' > meant to say that the 30 seconds I spent thinking of how to make the parsing > process more efficient was probably not sufficient to come up with the > optimal solution. Perhaps I should have said 'probably not optimally > efficient' instead. Sorry about that. Fair enough. I pulled out all the stops since you insinuated I was just whining. > I didn't mean to say it was no big deal. Making the changes I proposed > would certainly take some work. However, contrary to what some other people > said, the problem is not insoluble. > > My point was that I can't stand excuses for doing 'the right thing', > especially when people insist on working against an organization that is > only trying to help. ARIN is not making these policy changes to make > everybodys' lives more difficult. ARIN is making the changes because it has > a responsibility to stretch IP space in its region of the world as far as > possible. Hey, we try to do the right thing. I think this is where part of the problem lies. There seems to be this impression that ISPs are guilty before proven innocent, and not just during the long process of trying to get new IP space. We are not greedy, whiny, little pricks. Instead of putting the clamps on the ISPs why not focus on: 1) Reclaiming unused IP space to hold us out a little longer 2) Push a plan to get better client server technology out there, and once it is out there get people using it. As an rotten example, but feeling one is needed, what if the top 10 most popular sites had a message pop up that informed people if they were using an old browser and encouraged them to upgrade. I'm not bitching just to bitch. I'm looking out for my ecommerce customers. 90% of my revenue comes from businesses. If I don't watch out for their bottom line, they sure the hell aren't going to look out for mine. If I switch them to a name-based system, before the world is ready for it and they lose hits do to software incompatibilites, or don't notice that their traffic died, or they can't see how effective a commercial was by using real-time accounting stats, or one of my customers gets DOSed and I can't control the traffic at my core routers or at my upstream so I have to take everyone down because they all share an IP, they are going to host with someone who cheats the system and gets them an IP. > Also, as I tried to say before people on the 'net have come up with some > truly brilliant ways to deal with the issues that face us when they need > to. I really think it would be a far better use of our time here if we all > put our heads together to try and figure out a feasible way for everybody to > use name-based virutal hosts in as many applications as possible than > arguing about how hard it is. Then, if we as a group find that it is truly > not possible then we can state that (from experience, as opposed to just > from theoretical conjecture) at the next ARIN meeting and recommend an > appropriate policy change. Wonderful. I am with you 100% here. Like I said many times in my other post, I'm sure you and most of the others here are a lot smarter than I am. And I'm very willing to make changes that work, but no one seems to be pointing me in the right direction, so all I can do is point out the obvious nature of how things work as I understand them. > You may think that just because I don't run a web hosting outfit today I > don't understand the issues, and you're welcome to think that. It is true > that I don't know how every single web hosting outfit out there accounts for > usage, but I daresay you probably don't know that either. You know how you > do things, and that's all you need to know. This is the exact reason why I > or you alone are not responsible for creating ARIN policies. It is done by > member participation in ARIN. And the general idea is that ARIN and its > members benefit from having a hand in shaping what happens to IP allocation > policy. Obviously. And all I can do is let the group (ARIN) know that I for one have a problem with it. And from judging by the number of responses sent only to me last night, I'm not the only one. I'm not sure why most of these people have not responded to the group. Maybe they don't want to be labeled as a trouble maker and have even a tougher time getting IPs from ARIN next time. > Speaking to your request for a solution to your accounting woes, I really > don't think you want that from ARIN. See, if that happens then people will > start screaming about how ARIN dictates the way people must do business, > which gets into another rat-hole that we really don't want to go down. > There are many ways to skin this cat. > > So I will say again, instead of arguing with me about how easy or not easy > this problem is to deal with, why don't we try actually solving the issues? > And if they are not solvable then we will know we have tried our best and we > can report those findings at the next ARIN meeting in an effort to get the > recently adopted policy changed. > > And FYI, demanding a solution to your specific problem without providing any > suggestions of your own is not the best way to engage help from others. Maybe the some of the hosting world just isn't ready for this new policy. It's not like I've sat on my ass for the last 6 years without changing how I've done business. I wouldn't be around if I didn't evolve as you put it. I've watched just about everyone that has not sold their business, go out of business, and there are plenty of reasons for that, but primary it was due to a lack of adopting new technologies. The point being I have tested and adopted my own suggestions already. My suggestion to the core problem, is to reclaim unused IP space, push for IPv6, and make appropriate IP saving changes when it does not significantly hinder the ability to do business on the Internet. > Not a bad setup. I don't really see what I said before would not apply to > this setup. If eliminate multiple IPs I'm unsure how to: 1) Address the HTTP/1.0 issues in an acceptable clean fashion 2) Do real time web accounting. Remember we buy bandwidth by the Mbit, so we need to sell it by the Mbit 3) Provide controls against DOS attacks. No we don't host porn sites 4) Provide secure server certificates 5) Provide database support from server to server. I'm not a programmer any more so I don't know how big an issue it is, but my programmer told me it would be a mess Those are some of the issues that I don't know how to handle with single IP hosting. > > And like I said before, when appropriate we have assigned multiple sites > > to a single IP. We actually do it by sending all requests into a CGI > > script that grabs the HTTP_HOST env variable and creates the customized > > web site on the fly with MySQL. So yes, we are trying to conserve IP > > addresses, we are not greedy, whiny bastards trying to screw the Internet > > up for everyone else. > > Nobody ever said you were, and I truly resent having words put into my > mouth. Please refrain from doing so in the future. Miscommunication. I didn't mean to imply that you called me a greedy, whiny bastard. I was trying to emphasize the point that ISPs, at least mine, are trying to conserve IP space. ARIN's policy implies that ISPs are not doing enough to conserve the space. And like I said before there seems to be this mis-conception that ISPs are fighting change and IP conservation. Hell, our business depends on more people getting access. We of all people should be, and I beleive most are, promoting IP conservation. > If you recall, I was addressing a specific post where a person was demanding > specific solutions to every problem that this policy change would be > causing. I, for one, don't respond well to demands for help. Look. My point is I live this business. I realize I'm not the smartest guy out here, but I've been doing this a long time in Internet years. ARIN has come up with a policy that I think is premature. With the needs and tools I have, and I have do have a few, it's a bad policy. But if someone can show me how I'm mistaken, I will gladly listen and change my technologies. Actually I think the policy would make a wonderful "Guideline". It shouldn't affect IP allocation, but it should be encouraged at this time. > > Cool! Now we all know how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what > > about all those HTTP/1.0 browsers!? You don't think they exist any > > more? Check this out. In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of > > one server from a selective time period. All my logs files are in the > > www.domain.com format. Here are my commands and results: > > > > webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l > > 400441 > > webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l > > 375412 > > > > 48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my customers' sites used > > HTTP/1.0. For the uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does > > NOT support name based hosting. > > That's the first number I've seen on the subject that is greater that 2%, > and I will confess it does concern me a great deal. > > Does anybody else have any numbers they'd like to share? As someone pointed out. Apparently HTTP/1.0 can support name based hosting. I was unaware of this. And if that truely is the case, I would like to see some numbers. I would have guessed ARIN would know this before instituting a policy. Perhaps they would like to share. > > Can I tell all my customers to call you when their online business drops > > by almost 50%. By the way, can you use a shared IP for secure server > > certificates? > > No, you can't, which is why there are exceptions to the policy. Granted > there isn't a specific exception for SSL, which I think is one place where > the group (myself included) erred in Calgary last March. That's an easy one. > Look, bottom line is that name-based virtual hosts have the ability to > stretch our IP utilization even further (and the way IPv6 is looking means > we'll really need to do this). Moreover, if you think the name-based > virtual hosting policy should be changed or repealed, then by all means > start participating in the process to make that happen. That's what I'm trying to do! Or is this not the right place to participate? > And finally, there may well be some websites out there that cannot be > handled any way except for giving them their own IP address. I don't know > this for sure, but I'd say it's a pretty good guess. > > Similarly, there are some dial-up users out there who insist on having a > static IP address. ISPs are free to do that, _JUST AS LONG AS MOST OF THEIR > LOW-END CLIENTS USE DYNAMIC IP ADDRESSES_. This can easily be extended to > virtual hosting. And I agree that this should be stated specifically, but I > really think ARIN's true intent was to change the default mom-and-pop > hosting account from a dedicated IP address to a name-based virtual host. > > So perhaps the policy should be re-worded to state that for providers who > sell 'cheap' web-hosting for domains that get relatively few hits per month > they should use name-based virtual hosting for those clients? From what I > recall from the discussion in Calgary those were the accounts the policy was > targeted at... Ah! Now we are getting somewhere. Where to draw the line though? That extra 5% business for a company whether they are doing $10,000 or a million or more is still pretty important, especially now with everyone's margins so low while the fight for market share appears to be paramount. Almost all my account are $50/month. Is this considered cheap? Do you have to be a IBM selling $2500 accounts to gain the exception? Or, are the $19.95 joints where the cutoff would be drawn? Just curious. Alec, I understand your and ARIN's points. However if a "policy" is going to be created and enforced I think we some of these issues need to be better addressed and defined so legit ISPs don't have to wait over a month to get new IP space and go through a process of defending web hosting IP space. As I read the policy I'm out of compliance, and I have issues with that. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 15:01:42 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA26167 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:52:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA26082; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:52:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20348; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:52:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from freeside.fc.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA39476; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:47:45 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200009121847.NAA39476@freeside.fc.net> To: Mury cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:44:08 CDT." Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:47:45 -0500 From: Jeremy Porter Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR In message , Mury writes: > >On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jeremy Porter wrote: >> I don't think Alec has called anyone whiners. > >Jeremy, > >"Whining" was not my word. Please read his response to me more >carefully, and I'll quote it here, so you don't have to scroll down: You can believe what you want, but I'm going to drop this. >> The policy has been >> discussed and as presented does not change the business climate for >> for existing users of addresses. For new assignments I quote: >> http://www.arin.net/announcements/policy_changes.html >> Exceptions may be made for ISPs that provide justification for >> requiring static addresses. ARIN will determine, on a case-by-case >> basis, whether an exception is appropriate. >> >> If you are sure that your use of one IP per Host is justifiable, then >> you should have no problem getting an exception approved. >> Perhaps if you are complaining maybe you don't feel that your >> use has technical merit? > >Here we go with just calling me a complainer again. Dear sir, do you know >what an awful process it is to get more space from ARIN. I beleive the >point is an exception should be a policy if in general you would have to >grant more exceptions than not. If the hosting world is not quite ready >for name based hosting why make most people fight to get exceptions? >Shouldn't it be a policy? Ok, let me try again, If you are sure that your use of one IP per Host is justifiable, then you should have no problem getting an exception approved. If you do not feel that your use has technical merit, then your complaint with the policy, is that it is "inconvenient". If in fact "most" hosting services need exceptions, then a policy change would probably be in order. Nothing in the existing policy indicates that it will be difficult to get exceptions. This is your suggestion that it will be hard, without even testing the waters. Neither Alec nor I have said that policy change should be considered, and I am specificly asking you for suggestions. >And don't get me wrong again, I can here it coming. I am concerned about >wasted IP space. I'm not advocating wasting IP space just because it's an >easier thing to do than conserve it. Ok lets come up with some suggested wording. >> With that said, theses issues were discussed at the ARIN policy meeting, >> and there weren't huge objections, so the conclusion was reached that >> there were significant objectors. Luckily there is a meeting in >> just a few weeks, where you are invited to discuss it more, and >> perhaps better wording can be determined that would allow existing >> operations to switch to more efficient technologies in a reasonable >> time frame, while still encouraging better utilization of >> IP addressing. > >Where is the meeting? Who shows up? Isn't emailing the group just as >an acceptable way of communicating, or do I need to show up and be called >a whiner in person? The ARIN meetings are listed on the WWW site, in fairly large letters even. Emailing is fine, but if this is important to you, you will probably find that if you show up in person, it is quicker and easier to explain your point of view, and it is much less of a problem to reach consensus on issues. Posting to the list back in march would have been better, as your input would have been heard before the agenda items was reached. Now I don't even remember exactly when all the lists got setup and finalized, so if you didn't have the information that it was going to be discussed at the meeting, well obviously we can't fix that now. However since there is a meeting coming up and obviously interest, I'm sure that this will be covered. Policy making requires some level of meetings, as at least, for IP addressing, mailing list discussions are not sufficient. >> I'm sure if several vocal www hosting business pushed for changed wording >> that still encouraged better utilization, that it would be considered. >> >From my recollection of the last ARIN meeting there was a significant >> lack of input from WWW hosting companies, as there were only a handful >> present. >> >> "Whining" (your words) > >Not my words. And I'm sick of being called a whiner. ... Here you ignore my point, you have the chance to help fix what you perceive as a problem. Wouldn't it make sense to do so. The ARIN AC is listening to your suggestions. >Mury >GoldenGate Internet Services > --- jerry@fc.net 512-519-6193 www.wayport.net 8303 Mopac Expressway Suite A300, Austin Tx. From owner-ppml@arin.net Tue Sep 12 15:12:56 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA28178 for ppml-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:08:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA28159; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:08:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26984; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:07:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13YvOt-0005tj-00; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:07:23 -0600 Message-ID: <39BE7EE7.F067161@hilander.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:07:19 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mury CC: Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ppml@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Mury wrote: > > Ummm, it's what you are using one of our IPs for to promote. It's on one > of your multiple web servers. If it's not important to you any more, > perhaps you should do some cleaning up and return some IPs. Probably, although those machines are actually Johns Hopkins property, so I should probably get in touch with the folks back at the CNDS lab. > > You know I agree with you on most of what you are getting at, but I need > to keep most of that log file anyway. Customers sometimes need to see > where there traffic is coming from and what pages they are hitting, so if > I need to log all that information it should go to the same file, so I > don't double the amount of writes I need for each request. It's a matter of which one takes more time, writing two logs, or writing one big one and having to parse it for utilization data. I honestly don't know which is better... > > Hey, we try to do the right thing. I think this is where part of the > problem lies. There seems to be this impression that ISPs are guilty > before proven innocent, and not just during the long process of trying to > get new IP space. We are not greedy, whiny, little pricks. No, you aren't. And ARIN is not made up of a bunch of vindictive narrow-minded pencil pushers who are trying to concerve IP addresses like they're the last few molecules of oxygen in a sealed chamber. We're all working towards the same end; making the 'net function as well as possible. Having multiple sides to the discussion only helps the situation. > > Instead of putting the clamps on the ISPs why not focus on: > > 1) Reclaiming unused IP space to hold us out a little longer That's already being done, but there's a big problem. ARIN doesn't have authority over the major offenders (legacy /8s and /16s). The AC has had long, involved discussions about how is best to do this, and we're working on it. For example, our first goal is to re-claim address space of companies that have gone out of business. If you have some ideas on how we can do this we'd _love_ to hear them. > 2) Push a plan to get better client server technology out there, and once > it is out there get people using it. As an rotten example, but feeling > one is needed, what if the top 10 most popular sites had a message pop up > that informed people if they were using an old browser and encouraged them > to upgrade. Yuck! I mean, it's an idea, but I see where you're going... The idea is to get our members to try and help with this task as well... > > I'm not bitching just to bitch. I'm looking out for my ecommerce > customers. 90% of my revenue comes from businesses. If I don't watch out > for their bottom line, they sure the hell aren't going to look out for > mine. If I switch them to a name-based system, before the world is ready > for it and they lose hits do to software incompatibilites, or don't notice > that their traffic died, or they can't see how effective a commercial was > by using real-time accounting stats, or one of my customers gets DOSed and > I can't control the traffic at my core routers or at my upstream so I have > to take everyone down because they all share an IP, they are going to host > with someone who cheats the system and gets them an IP. Those are legitimate gripes. Can we come up with reasonable solutions to them? > > Obviously. And all I can do is let the group (ARIN) know that I for one > have a problem with it. And from judging by the number of responses sent > only to me last night, I'm not the only one. I'm not sure why most of > these people have not responded to the group. Maybe they don't want to be > labeled as a trouble maker and have even a tougher time getting IPs from > ARIN next time. No, you aren't the only one, but at the same time, there were a huge number of people at the last ARIN meeting who were in support of this policy, however most of them have been silent through most of this (perhaps because they feel they already made their feelings known at the last meeting). And as far as being labled a trouble-maker, I know plenty of people who have been far more vocal about ARIN policy than you and have had no problem getting address space. Please don't spread the mis-conception that ARIN is anything other than an objective organization. It isn't true and it makes everyone's life much more difficult in getting support for the organization. > > Maybe the some of the hosting world just isn't ready for this new policy. This may be true, but the longer we wait the more address space that's going to get used up, and the less we'll have to play with in the future... > > If eliminate multiple IPs I'm unsure how to: > > 1) Address the HTTP/1.0 issues in an acceptable clean fashion See other discussions; the issue of legacy browsers IMO is a red herring. It exists, but it's really small. > 2) Do real time web accounting. Remember we buy bandwidth by the Mbit, so > we need to sell it by the Mbit Doing bandwidth (as opposed to bytes transfered per period of time) billing is tough, although it sounds like more and more vendors are starting to sell equipment that handles this. > 3) Provide controls against DOS attacks. No we don't host porn sites But those are the money-makers! :-) Seriously, I understand the DOS issue all too well, and it does need to be addressed. Not sure how to at this point, except to say that this policy is really targeted towards the bottom-of-the-line web hosting accounts. If you have a customer who has a lot of traffic, pays you a lot of money and can't afford to be off the air then it makes perfect sense to have him on a dedicated IP (I think at least). > 4) Provide secure server certificates That qualifies as an exception. > 5) Provide database support from server to server. I'm not a programmer > any more so I don't know how big an issue it is, but my programmer told me > it would be a mess Not sure exactly what you're trying to do with server to server DB support (more to the point why it would be a problem). > > Miscommunication. I didn't mean to imply that you called me a greedy, > whiny bastard. I was trying to emphasize the point that ISPs, at least > mine, are trying to conserve IP space. ARIN's policy implies that ISPs > are not doing enough to conserve the space. And like I said before there > seems to be this mis-conception that ISPs are fighting change and IP > conservation. Hell, our business depends on more people getting > access. We of all people should be, and I beleive most are, promoting IP > conservation. Just because I don't water my lawn doesn't give me a right to suck up all of the water from the local well with some other application (like starting a car wash, for example). Perhaps that's a bad analogy, but my point is that ARIN recognizes ISPs have made great strides in conserving IP space. However, as more and more companies and users hook up to the 'net every month, we need to do as much as we can. > > Actually I think the policy would make a wonderful "Guideline". It > shouldn't affect IP allocation, but it should be encouraged at this time. That's actually been proposed on another list, although I'm really not sure if that would affect what people do. Anybody else have thoughts? > > As someone pointed out. Apparently HTTP/1.0 can support name based > hosting. I was unaware of this. > > And if that truely is the case, I would like to see some numbers. I would > have guessed ARIN would know this before instituting a policy. Perhaps > they would like to share. The numbers we got came from our members. I believe Gene had some extensive data. > > That's what I'm trying to do! Or is this not the right place to > participate? Well that's the tough part. Most of the member opinion polls take place at the in-person meetings. We do need to try and find a better way to get the pulse of the membership, I think. However, it needs to be stated that officially the Board is the only group that institutes new policy. To this date they have only done that with policies that the membership or AC have recommended. > > Ah! Now we are getting somewhere. Where to draw the line though? That > extra 5% business for a company whether they are doing $10,000 or a > million or more is still pretty important, especially now with everyone's > margins so low while the fight for market share appears to be paramount. True enough. > > Almost all my account are $50/month. Is this considered cheap? Do you > have to be a IBM selling $2500 accounts to gain the exception? Or, are > the $19.95 joints where the cutoff would be drawn? Just curious. That's a very good question, I'm not sure what the answer is. > > Alec, I understand your and ARIN's points. However if a "policy" is going > to be created and enforced I think we some of these issues need to be > better addressed and defined so legit ISPs don't have to wait over a > month to get new IP space and go through a process of defending web > hosting IP space. Which is why we really need more participation. Fortunately this policy change has brought more of it forward, but as I said above we need a better way to tally opinions in a fair manner... Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 15:13:56 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA27895 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:04:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA27868; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:04:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Exchange.AdvancedAccess.Com (Exchange.AdvancedAccess.Com [64.68.32.4]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA25213; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:03:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by Exchange.AdvancedAccess.Com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:03:36 -0700 Message-ID: From: Host Master To: arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:03:35 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C01CEC.26F3EBA4" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C01CEC.26F3EBA4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The exception is not true, we recently requested more IP space for web hosting and were denied because of the new policy. We had to valid reasons. 1. Search Engines blacklist by IP and account for submissions by IP, one of our biggest selling points is that we get great positioning in search engines. 2. Most of our clients have HTTP 1.0 browsers, and are unable to upgrade because of company policies for the offices they work with. 3. A large percentage of our clients use SSL, we work in the real estate / mortgage field and the customers are VERY paranoid. For all intents and purposes we have been cut off from around 40% of our client base. We have produced documentation to ARIN for both of these reasons and they still denied it citing "ARIN official policy is to deny IP base web hosting, no exceptions". We are being forced to request more address space from our upstream provider so that we can cover the sites that would like to be SSL. This is not acceptable. This forced change has cost us a large (in our terms, we are not the largest company) amount of business, and forced us to loose business to competitors that just host using space from upstream providers. The reason we went to ARIN issued space was for portability across our providers, in the long run it may hurt us more than the benefit it will give us. --- Scott Johnson Director Of Software Engineering Advanced Access (714) 685-5124 sjohnson@advancedaccess.com -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Porter [mailto:jerry@fc.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:35 AM To: Mury Cc: Alec H. Peterson; Matt Bailey; arin-discuss@arin.net; ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification I don't think Alec has called anyone whiners. The policy has been discussed and as presented does not change the business climate for for existing users of addresses. For new assignments I quote: http://www.arin.net/announcements/policy_changes.html Exceptions may be made for ISPs that provide justification for requiring static addresses. ARIN will determine, on a case-by-case basis, whether an exception is appropriate. If you are sure that your use of one IP per Host is justfiable, then you should have no problem getting an exception approved. Perhaps if you are complaining maybe you don't feel that your use has technical merit? "Back in the day" when I ran an ISP and Web hosting business for a living, we used single IPs for WWW (http 1.1 didn't exist), assigned static IPs to all customers, etc. When new technologies came about and policies changed, we followed. We ended up renumber those static customers and some significiant business cost, because it was the right thing to do. It wasn't easy, the customers didn't like it, it made accounting and access control harder. With that said, theses issues were discussed at the ARIN policy meeting, and there weren't huge objections, so the conclusion was reached that there were significant objectors. Luckily there is a meeting in just a few weeks, where you are invited to discusse it more, and perhaps better wording can be determined that would allow existing operations to switch to more efficient technologies in a reasonable time frame, while still encouraging better utilization of IP addressing. I'm sure if several vocal www hosting business pushed for changed wording that still encouraged better utilization, that it would be considered. >From my recollection of the last ARIN meeting there was a significant lack of input from WWW hosting companies, as there were only a handful present. "Whining" (your words) about it on the mailing list might not be enough. Also I'd think you find Alec would be more than willing to help address any technical issues you might find, but telling him "math is hard" isn't likely to win you much, and personal attacks, will likely just be ignored, as he's been doing this long enough to not take the "bait". In message , Mury writes: > >Dear Alec, > >Since you basically called those of us pointing out some real issues >"whiners," I took the liberty of finding out a little bit more about >you. It looks like you are probably a fairly bright person, probably a >lot smarter than me. From looking at your web site though and reading >your comments below I question how much you really understand what you are >talking about when you trivialize some of the issues that have been >brought up. > >I also find it interesting that in your presentation to the 11th NANOG >meeting that you did with Avi Freedman (Isn't he working for Digital >Island now? Or one of the other distributed content providers) you are >supporting a technology that not only assigns an IP address to a web site >but assigns multiple IP addresses to a single site. Perhaps I didn't >decipher your presentation correctly, but it sure seems like you are >supporting performance/service level issues above and beyond IP >conservation. Ah, I hear it coming, that each distributed node can handle >multiple distributed sites off of a single IP. Very true. Do you know >what the ratio of managed sites to in-service systems is? How many >locations is Akamai in? I really don't know what the IP "waste" ratio is. >But the point is you are supporting performance at the expense of IP >addresses however large or small that may be. > >In addition, you even argue against yourself. You say, "For example, >don't do all of the parsing at once at the end of the day; modify the >server to keep a running tally of a customer's usage and have it write >that alone to a file on the disk every time it changes. Far more >efficient. That's just off the top of my head, and probably not a really >efficient way to do it." > >What?! How can it be *far more efficient* and then in the next line it's >*not a really efficient*" Can you see why I'm not very thrilled with your >off the cuff and seemingly inexperienced comments? > >By making light of some real issues that were brought up it sure seems >like your statements are hypocritical. Now like I said, I'm not the >smartest guy out here, so if I've badly misrepresented things I apologize >in advance. > >Bottom line, for every one out there saying it's no big deal to do single >IP virtual hosting I would like to see a solution that does not sacrifice >reliability, accountability, quality of service, and functionality. I >hate it when people (even smart people) start voicing opinions on things >they don't understand. > >I'm also not stubborn. I'm not running things the way I do because it's >my way, but because they work, they are scalable, they are functionable, >and we have zero down time. I've tried Microsoft IIS. It doesn't work. >Well doh, of course it works, but not for a company that demands uptime >and security and a fast and simple database. I have to reboot co-located >IIS machines all the time. My BSDI/Apache/MySQL/Perl/PHP/Raven boxes have >had zero downtime in the last 3 years. That is not an invitation to hack >or DOS my network. But thanks for thinking about me. > >And like I said before, when appropriate we have assigned multiple sites >to a single IP. We actually do it by sending all requests into a CGI >script that grabs the HTTP_HOST env variable and creates the customized >web site on the fly with MySQL. So yes, we are trying to conserve IP >addresses, we are not greedy, whiny bastards trying to screw the Internet >up for everyone else. > >For those of you running Apache that want to know how to do it the right >way, go to: http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html > >Cool! Now we all know how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what >about all those HTTP/1.0 browsers!? You don't think they exist any >more? Check this out. In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of >one server from a selective time period. All my logs files are in the >www.domain.com format. Here are my commands and results: > >webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l > 400441 >webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l > 375412 > >48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my customers' sites used >HTTP/1.0. For the uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does >NOT support name based hosting. > >Can I tell all my customers to call you when their online business drops >by almost 50%. By the way, can you use a shared IP for secure server >certificates? > >Some more thoughts... > >Look at some of the new comers to the tech scene, Keynote, Akamai, >Speedera, Digital Island, etc. These company's success show how important >it is to the world to have fast, reliable, and secure web sites. Quality >of Service (in its broad definition) is paramount. And if you don't >believe that you can make a fortune by shorting the stock in those >companies. > >I don't want to see any more comments that I should be doing things >smarter and better. I want to see explanations of how I can accomplish >the things that you say are so easy. Like I said I'm not stubborn... show >me the way. If you can't, then please refrain from making popular >political statements that don't affect YOUR business and your customers' >business. > >There's my not so bright, whiny, long-winded $10 worth. > >Mury >GoldenGate Internet Services > >PS. If you are such an advocate for IP conservation why do you have a >whole block? I can't tell how many IPs you are wasting because your >provider has not swipped your block. But you have multiple web sites >running on multiple IPs! What's your excuse? > >Name: gw1.hilander.com >Address: 216.241.32.33 > >Name: virthost.hilander.com >Address: 216.241.32.35 > >Name: ramirez.hilander.com >Address: 216.241.32.34 > >Pretty interesting web sites I might add. > >If you are going to call someone a whiner you better have your own act >together. The hypocrisy is killing me. > >Like I said, I'm sure you are smarter than me, but stick to what you know. > > >On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > >> Mury wrote: >> > >> > Yikes! >> > >> > Have you ever tried to parse up to 1000 log files per system, with some of >> > them around 500MB in size. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds. >> >> It is if you change how you write and parse your logs. >> >> > >> > For some people it's feasable, but for most of us we *need* IP based >> > accounting. >> > >> > By the way, we are setup to do a large number of URL's pointed at a single >> > IP for some hosting applications, but for the majority of our sites, it is >> > not an option. >> >> Can't say that I have tried it. However at the same time I can think of >> quite a few ways to make the task far easier and faster. For example, don't >> do all of the parsing at once at the end of the day; modify the server to > keep a running tally of a customer's usage and have it write that alone to a >> file on the disk every time it changes. Far more efficient. >> >> That's just off the top of my head, and probably not a really efficient way >> to do it. My point is that the Internet is made up of a lot of smart people >> who are more than capable of solving these issues if they feel like it. >> Whining about how today's methods of accounting won't work with tomorrow's >> methods of virtual hosting is a lot like complaining about how yesterday's >> chalk writes really poorly on today's white boards. If you don't want to be >> left behind you have to keep on evolving. >> >> After all, where would we be today if dial-up providers decided that it was >> too much work to use dynamically allocated IP addresses and kept on giving >> each user their own IP address? >> >> However, name-based virtual hosts aren't exactly a new thing. Many large >> web hosters have been using name-based virtual hosts for a while now, so >> would any of those companies mind sharing a little wisdom on how this can be >> done? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Alec >> >> -- >> Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com >> Staff Scientist >> CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com >> "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" >> > > --- jerry@fc.net 512-519-6193 www.wayport.net 8303 Mopac Expressway Suite A300, Austin Tx. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C01CEC.26F3EBA4 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The exception is not true, we = recently requested more IP space for web hosting and were denied = because of the new policy. We had to valid reasons.

1. Search Engines blacklist by = IP and account for submissions by IP, one of our biggest selling points = is that we get great positioning in search engines.

2. Most of our clients have HTTP = 1.0 browsers, and are unable to upgrade because of company policies for = the offices they work with.

3. A large percentage of our = clients use SSL, we work in the real estate / mortgage field and the = customers are VERY paranoid.

For all intents and purposes we = have been cut off from around 40% of our client base. We have produced = documentation to ARIN for both of these reasons and they still denied = it citing "ARIN official policy is to deny IP base web hosting, no = exceptions". We are being forced to request more address space = from our upstream provider so that we can cover the sites that would = like to be SSL.

This is not acceptable. This = forced change has cost us a large (in our terms, we are not the largest = company) amount of business, and forced us to loose business to = competitors that just host using space from upstream providers. The = reason we went to ARIN issued space was for portability across our = providers, in the long run it may hurt us more than the benefit it will = give us.

---
Scott Johnson
Director Of Software = Engineering
Advanced Access
(714) 685-5124
sjohnson@advancedaccess.com

-----Original = Message-----
From: Jeremy Porter [mailto:jerry@fc.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, = 2000 1:35 AM
To: Mury
Cc: Alec H. Peterson; Matt = Bailey; arin-discuss@arin.net; ppml@arin.net
Subject: Re: guideline for = name-based web hosting justification



I don't think Alec has called = anyone whiners.  The policy has been
discussed and as presented does = not change the business climate for
for existing users of = addresses.  For new assignments I quote:
http://www.arin.net/announcements/policy_changes.html<= /A>
        Exceptions may be made for ISPs that provide = justification for
        requiring static addresses. ARIN will determine, = on a case-by-case
        basis, whether an exception is appropriate. =

If you are sure that your use of = one IP per Host is justfiable, then
you should have no problem = getting an exception approved.
Perhaps if you are complaining = maybe you don't feel that your
use has technical merit?

"Back in the day" when = I ran an ISP and Web hosting business for a living,
we used single IPs for WWW = (http 1.1 didn't exist), assigned static
IPs to all customers, = etc.  When new technologies came about
and policies changed, we = followed.  We ended up renumber those static
customers and some significiant = business cost, because it was the
right thing to do.  It = wasn't easy, the customers didn't like it,
it made accounting and access = control harder.

With that said, theses issues = were discussed at the ARIN policy meeting,
and there weren't huge = objections, so the conclusion was reached that
there were significant = objectors.  Luckily there is a meeting in
just a few weeks, where you are = invited to discusse it more, and
perhaps better wording can be = determined that would allow existing
operations to switch to more = efficient technologies in a reasonable
time frame, while still = encouraging better utilization of
IP addressing.

I'm sure if several vocal www = hosting business pushed for changed wording
that still encouraged better = utilization, that it would be considered.
From my recollection of the = last ARIN meeting there was a significant
lack of input from WWW hosting = companies, as there were only a handful
present.

"Whining" (your words) = about it on the mailing list might not be
enough.  Also I'd think = you find Alec would be more than willing
to help address any technical = issues you might find, but telling him
"math is hard" isn't = likely to win you much, and personal attacks, will
likely just be ignored, as he's = been doing this long enough to not take
the "bait".


In message = <Pine.BSI.4.21.0009120008070.23889-100000@dew.goldengate.net>, = Mury
writes:
>
>Dear Alec,
>
>Since you basically called = those of us pointing out some real issues
>"whiners," I took = the liberty of finding out a little bit more about
>you.  It looks like = you are probably a fairly bright person, probably a
>lot smarter than me.  = >From looking at your web site though and reading
>your comments below I = question how much you really understand what you are
>talking about when you = trivialize some of the issues that have been
>brought up.
>
>I also find it interesting = that in your presentation to the 11th NANOG
>meeting that you did with = Avi Freedman (Isn't he working for Digital
>Island now?  Or one of = the other distributed content providers) you are
>supporting a technology = that not only assigns an IP address to a web site
>but assigns multiple IP = addresses to a single site.  Perhaps I didn't
>decipher your presentation = correctly, but it sure seems like you are
>supporting = performance/service level issues above and beyond IP
>conservation.  Ah, I = hear it coming, that each distributed node can handle
>multiple distributed sites = off of a single IP.  Very true.  Do you know
>what the ratio of managed = sites to in-service systems is?  How many
>locations is Akamai = in?  I really don't know what the IP "waste" ratio = is. 
>But the point is you are = supporting performance at the expense of IP
>addresses however large or = small that may be.
>
>In addition, you even argue = against yourself.  You say, "For example,
>don't do all of the parsing = at once at the end of the day; modify the
>server to keep a running = tally of a customer's usage and have it write
>that alone to a file on the = disk every time it changes.  Far more
>efficient.  That's = just off the top of my head, and probably not a really
>efficient way to do = it."
>
>What?!  How can it be = *far more efficient* and then in the next line it's
>*not a really = efficient*"  Can you see why I'm not very thrilled with = your
>off the cuff and seemingly = inexperienced comments?
>
>By making light of some = real issues that were brought up it sure seems
>like your statements are = hypocritical.  Now like I said, I'm not the
>smartest guy out here, so = if I've badly misrepresented things I apologize
>in advance.
>
>Bottom line, for every one = out there saying it's no big deal to do single
>IP virtual hosting I would = like to see a solution that does not sacrifice
>reliability, = accountability, quality of service, and functionality.  I
>hate it when people (even = smart people) start voicing opinions on things
>they don't = understand. 
>
>I'm also not = stubborn.  I'm not running things the way I do because it's
>my way, but because they = work, they are scalable, they are functionable,
>and we have zero down = time.  I've tried Microsoft IIS.  It doesn't work.  =
>Well doh, of course it = works, but not for a company that demands uptime
>and security and a fast and = simple database.  I have to reboot co-located
>IIS machines all the = time.  My BSDI/Apache/MySQL/Perl/PHP/Raven boxes have
>had zero downtime in the = last 3 years.  That is not an invitation to hack
>or DOS my network.  = But thanks for thinking about me.
>
>And like I said before, = when appropriate we have assigned multiple sites
>to a single IP.  We = actually do it by sending all requests into a CGI
>script that grabs the = HTTP_HOST env variable and creates the customized
>web site on the fly with = MySQL.  So yes, we are trying to conserve IP
>addresses, we are not = greedy, whiny bastards trying to screw the Internet
>up for everyone = else.
>
>For those of you running = Apache that want to know how to do it the right
>way, go to: 
http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html<= /FONT>
>
>Cool!  Now we all know = how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what
>about all those HTTP/1.0 = browsers!?  You don't think they exist any
>more?  Check this = out.  In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of
>one server from a selective = time period.  All my logs files are in the
>www.domain.com = format.  Here are my commands and results:
>
>webserver3: {17} % grep = 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l
>  400441
>webserver3: {18} % grep = 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l
>  375412
>
>48.4% of the browsers out = there that accessed my customers' sites used
>HTTP/1.0.  For the = uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does
>NOT support name based = hosting.
>
>Can I tell all my customers = to call you when their online business drops
>by almost 50%.  By the = way, can you use a shared IP for secure server
>certificates?
>
>Some more = thoughts...
>
>Look at some of the new = comers to the tech scene, Keynote, Akamai,
>Speedera, Digital Island, = etc.  These company's success show how important
>it is to the world to have = fast, reliable, and secure web sites.  Quality
>of Service (in its broad = definition) is paramount.  And if you don't
>believe that you can make a = fortune by shorting the stock in those
>companies.
>
>I don't want to see any = more comments that I should be doing things
>smarter and better.  I = want to see explanations of how I can accomplish
>the things that you say are = so easy.  Like I said I'm not stubborn... show
>me the way.  If you = can't, then please refrain from making popular
>political statements that = don't affect YOUR business and your customers'
>business.
>
>There's my not so bright, = whiny, long-winded $10 worth.
>
>Mury
>GoldenGate Internet = Services
>
>PS.  If you are such = an advocate for IP conservation why do you have a
>whole block?  I can't = tell how many IPs you are wasting because your
>provider has not swipped = your block.  But you have multiple web sites
>running on multiple = IPs!  What's your excuse?
>
>Name:    = gw1.hilander.com
>Address:  = 216.241.32.33
>
>Name:    = virthost.hilander.com
>Address:  = 216.241.32.35
>
>Name:    = ramirez.hilander.com
>Address:  = 216.241.32.34
>
>Pretty interesting web = sites I might add.
>
>If you are going to call = someone a whiner you better have your own act
>together.  The = hypocrisy is killing me.
>
>Like I said, I'm sure you = are smarter than me, but stick to what you know.
>
>
>On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Alec = H. Peterson wrote:
>
>> Mury wrote:
>> >
>> > Yikes!
>> >
>> > Have you ever = tried to parse up to 1000 log files per system, with some of
>> > them around 500MB = in size.  It's not nearly as easy as it sounds.
>>
>> It is if you change = how you write and parse your logs.
>>
>> >
>> > For some people = it's feasable, but for most of us we *need* IP based
>> > = accounting.
>> >
>> > By the way, we = are setup to do a large number of URL's pointed at a single
>> > IP for some = hosting applications, but for the majority of our sites, it is
>> > not an = option.
>>
>> Can't say that I have = tried it.  However at the same time I can think of
>> quite a few ways to = make the task far easier and faster.  For example, don't
>> do all of the parsing = at once at the end of the day; modify the server to
> keep a running tally of a = customer's usage and have it write that alone to a
>> file on the disk every = time it changes.  Far more efficient.
>>
>> That's just off the = top of my head, and probably not a really efficient way
>> to do it.  My = point is that the Internet is made up of a lot of smart people
>> who are more than = capable of solving these issues if they feel like it.
>> Whining about how = today's methods of accounting won't work with tomorrow's
>> methods of virtual = hosting is a lot like complaining about how yesterday's
>> chalk writes really = poorly on today's white boards.  If you don't want to be
>> left behind you have = to keep on evolving.
>>
>> After all, where would = we be today if dial-up providers decided that it was
>> too much work to use = dynamically allocated IP addresses and kept on giving
>> each user their own IP = address?
>>
>> However, name-based = virtual hosts aren't exactly a new thing.  Many large
>> web hosters have been = using name-based virtual hosts for a while now, so
>> would any of those = companies mind sharing a little wisdom on how this can be
>> done?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alec
>>
>> --
>> Alec H. Peterson - = ahp@hilander.com
>> Staff Scientist
>> CenterGate Research = Group - http://www.centergate.com
>> "Technology so = advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!"
>>
>
>

--- jerry@fc.net

512-519-6193 = www.wayport.net
8303 Mopac Expressway Suite = A300, Austin Tx.


------_=_NextPart_001_01C01CEC.26F3EBA4-- From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 15:18:35 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA28297 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:09:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA28285; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:09:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.fullport.com (gandalf.fullport.com [63.68.194.2]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA27688; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:09:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from waldo.fullport.com [63.105.108.15] by smtp.fullport.com (SMTPD32-5.08) id AE85106A0142; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:05:41 -0400 Message-ID: <001901c01cea$db5cf040$0f6c693f@fullport.com> From: "PSchroebel" To: "Mury" , "Jon Rust" Cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , "Matt Bailey" , , References: Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:54:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Tracking browsers.... Yes we did and we were amazed with the results. In fact we still dont believe them.... Where is Netscape?...this is a sampling too!! Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) 16605 (26.2%) 176388k (34.0%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) 4288 (6.8%) 8060k (1.6%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 5.0; Windows 95; DigExt) 3675 (5.8%) 38714k (7.5%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) 3477 (5.5%) 11312k (2.2%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) 2500 (3.9%) 13682k (2.6%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; AOL 5.0; Windows 98) 2051 (3.2%) 21238k (4.1%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 4.0; Windows 98; DigExt) 1906 (3.0%) 19527k (3.8%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; MSN 2.5; AOL 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) 1282 (2.0%) 13459k (2.6%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95) 1146 (1.8%) 6325k (1.2%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT) 1009 (1.6%) 5864k (1.1%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; AOL 5.0; Windows 98) 870 (1.4%) 9029k (1.7%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95; DigExt) 784 (1.2%) 4484k (0.9%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 4.0; Windows 98) 778 (1.2%) 7224k (1.4%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC) 766 (1.2%) 1076k (0.2%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 5.0; Windows 98; Compaq; DigExt) 630 (1.0%) 8262k (1.6%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98) 618 (1.0%) 3459k (0.7%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) 586 (0.9%) 3224k (0.6%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98) 548 (0.9%) 2893k (0.6%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) 534 (0.8%) 3060k (0.6%) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 4.0; Windows 95) 486 (0.8%) 5205k (1.0%) Sincerely, Peter Schroebel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mury" To: "Jon Rust" Cc: "Alec H. Peterson" ; "Matt Bailey" ; ; Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:02 PM Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification > You're bending the truth here, quite a bit actually. The HTTP 1.0 proto > may not support the Host: header, but browsers that are using HTTP 1.0 > may very well support he Host: header. Oh, i don't know, a smallish > browser called Netscape, v 2.0 or better, comes to mind. Grepping > through my access log for today I see over 65,000 1.0 requests. 98% of > those are to name-based virtual hosts (which is almost all i run > anymore), and they all worked. > > jon Good to know. Finally someone takes the time to correct me and not just call me a whiner. So, does anyone know a reliable source that keeps track of stats on browsers? If it isn't 50% that won't get to the web site, is it 10%? 5%? .0001%? Thanks. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 15:26:25 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA29115 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:17:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA29103; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:17:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01195; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:17:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01920; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:09:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:17:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: PSchroebel cc: Jon Rust , "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <001901c01cea$db5cf040$0f6c693f@fullport.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Was there no "Unknown" browsers? My logging and analysis tools have a very high percentage that come back as "Unknown," which I'm inclined to beleive are older browsers. Mury On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, PSchroebel wrote: > Tracking browsers.... > Yes we did and we were amazed with the results. > In fact we still dont believe them.... > > Where is Netscape?...this is a sampling too!! > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 5.0; Windows 98; > DigExt) 16605 (26.2%) 176388k (34.0%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) 4288 > (6.8%) 8060k (1.6%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 5.0; Windows 95; > DigExt) 3675 (5.8%) 38714k (7.5%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) 3477 > (5.5%) 11312k (2.2%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) 2500 > (3.9%) 13682k (2.6%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; AOL 5.0; Windows 98) > 2051 (3.2%) 21238k (4.1%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 4.0; Windows 98; > DigExt) 1906 (3.0%) 19527k (3.8%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; MSN 2.5; AOL 5.0; Windows > 98; DigExt) 1282 (2.0%) 13459k (2.6%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95) 1146 (1.8%) > 6325k (1.2%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT) 1009 (1.6%) > 5864k (1.1%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; AOL 5.0; Windows 98) 870 > (1.4%) 9029k (1.7%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95; DigExt) 784 > (1.2%) 4484k (0.9%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 4.0; Windows 98) > 778 (1.2%) 7224k (1.4%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC) 766 (1.2%) > 1076k (0.2%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 5.0; Windows 98; > Compaq; DigExt) 630 (1.0%) 8262k (1.6%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98) 618 (1.0%) > 3459k (0.7%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) 586 (0.9%) > 3224k (0.6%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98) 548 (0.9%) > 2893k (0.6%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) 534 (0.8%) > 3060k (0.6%) > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 4.0; Windows 95) > 486 (0.8%) 5205k (1.0%) > > Sincerely, > > > Peter Schroebel > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mury" > To: "Jon Rust" > Cc: "Alec H. Peterson" ; "Matt Bailey" > ; ; > > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:02 PM > Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting > justification > > > > > You're bending the truth here, quite a bit actually. The > HTTP 1.0 proto > > may not support the Host: header, but browsers that are > using HTTP 1.0 > > may very well support he Host: header. Oh, i don't know, a > smallish > > browser called Netscape, v 2.0 or better, comes to mind. > Grepping > > through my access log for today I see over 65,000 1.0 > requests. 98% of > > those are to name-based virtual hosts (which is almost all > i run > > anymore), and they all worked. > > > > jon > > > Good to know. Finally someone takes the time to correct me > and not just > call me a whiner. > > So, does anyone know a reliable source that keeps track of > stats on > browsers? If it isn't 50% that won't get to the web site, > is it > 10%? 5%? .0001%? > > Thanks. > > Mury > GoldenGate Internet Services > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 16:20:56 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA04122 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:11:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA04102; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:11:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mx01.cafemail.com ([64.79.8.142]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26065; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:11:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mx10 ([207.201.29.77]) by mx01.cafemail.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-18505) with SMTP id AAA151; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:09:53 -0700 Message-ID: <00e301c01cf5$69c75410$4d1dc9cf@javamail.com> Reply-To: "Charles Winter" From: cwinter@communicationnation.com (Charles Winter) To: "Mury" , "Jon Rust" Cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , "Matt Bailey" , , References: Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:09:51 -0700 Organization: Communication Nation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Mury, We started running HTTP1.1 web servers about 2 and a half years ago, using the IBM "Go Webserver" - now under the Lotus name .... as it was one of the only servers supporting the HTTP1.1 protocol at that time. The server also has very nice logging, in any case we saw alot of Netscape 2.0 generation browser hits - all going through just fine. I don't think we ever got a customer complaint about not being able to access a site. Charles Winter Communication Nation, Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mury To: Jon Rust Cc: Alec H. Peterson ; Matt Bailey ; ; Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:02 AM Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification > > > You're bending the truth here, quite a bit actually. The HTTP 1.0 proto > > may not support the Host: header, but browsers that are using HTTP 1.0 > > may very well support he Host: header. Oh, i don't know, a smallish > > browser called Netscape, v 2.0 or better, comes to mind. Grepping > > through my access log for today I see over 65,000 1.0 requests. 98% of > > those are to name-based virtual hosts (which is almost all i run > > anymore), and they all worked. > > > > jon > > > Good to know. Finally someone takes the time to correct me and not just > call me a whiner. > > So, does anyone know a reliable source that keeps track of stats on > browsers? If it isn't 50% that won't get to the web site, is it > 10%? 5%? .0001%? > > Thanks. > > Mury > GoldenGate Internet Services > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Sep 12 16:46:06 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA07506 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:37:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from snoopy (snoopy.arin.net [192.149.252.189]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id QAA07460; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:37:12 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: From: "Richard Jimmerson" To: "'Host Master'" , , Subject: RE: Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:42:40 -0400 Message-ID: <008a01c01cf9$ff1f2700$bdfc95c0@ARINNET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_008B_01C01CD8.780D8700" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_008B_01C01CD8.780D8700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Scott, Considering a large percentage of your customers use SSL there must have been a mistake or misunderstanding during the review of your request for additional IP address space. I will be contacting you personally (off-list) to discuss your request and bring it to a quick resolution. Best Regards, Richard Jimmerson American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) -----Original Message----- From: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net [mailto:owner-arin-discuss@arin.net]On Behalf Of Host Master Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:04 PM To: arin-discuss@arin.net; ppml@arin.net Subject: The exception is not true, we recently requested more IP space for web hosting and were denied because of the new policy. We had to valid reasons. 1. Search Engines blacklist by IP and account for submissions by IP, one of our biggest selling points is that we get great positioning in search engines. 2. Most of our clients have HTTP 1.0 browsers, and are unable to upgrade because of company policies for the offices they work with. 3. A large percentage of our clients use SSL, we work in the real estate / mortgage field and the customers are VERY paranoid. For all intents and purposes we have been cut off from around 40% of our client base. We have produced documentation to ARIN for both of these reasons and they still denied it citing "ARIN official policy is to deny IP base web hosting, no exceptions". We are being forced to request more address space from our upstream provider so that we can cover the sites that would like to be SSL. This is not acceptable. This forced change has cost us a large (in our terms, we are not the largest company) amount of business, and forced us to loose business to competitors that just host using space from upstream providers. The reason we went to ARIN issued space was for portability across our providers, in the long run it may hurt us more than the benefit it will give us. --- Scott Johnson Director Of Software Engineering Advanced Access (714) 685-5124 sjohnson@advancedaccess.com -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Porter [mailto:jerry@fc.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:35 AM To: Mury Cc: Alec H. Peterson; Matt Bailey; arin-discuss@arin.net; ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification I don't think Alec has called anyone whiners. The policy has been discussed and as presented does not change the business climate for for existing users of addresses. For new assignments I quote: http://www.arin.net/announcements/policy_changes.html Exceptions may be made for ISPs that provide justification for requiring static addresses. ARIN will determine, on a case-by-case basis, whether an exception is appropriate. If you are sure that your use of one IP per Host is justfiable, then you should have no problem getting an exception approved. Perhaps if you are complaining maybe you don't feel that your use has technical merit? "Back in the day" when I ran an ISP and Web hosting business for a living, we used single IPs for WWW (http 1.1 didn't exist), assigned static IPs to all customers, etc. When new technologies came about and policies changed, we followed. We ended up renumber those static customers and some significiant business cost, because it was the right thing to do. It wasn't easy, the customers didn't like it, it made accounting and access control harder. With that said, theses issues were discussed at the ARIN policy meeting, and there weren't huge objections, so the conclusion was reached that there were significant objectors. Luckily there is a meeting in just a few weeks, where you are invited to discusse it more, and perhaps better wording can be determined that would allow existing operations to switch to more efficient technologies in a reasonable time frame, while still encouraging better utilization of IP addressing. I'm sure if several vocal www hosting business pushed for changed wording that still encouraged better utilization, that it would be considered. From my recollection of the last ARIN meeting there was a significant lack of input from WWW hosting companies, as there were only a handful present. "Whining" (your words) about it on the mailing list might not be enough. Also I'd think you find Alec would be more than willing to help address any technical issues you might find, but telling him "math is hard" isn't likely to win you much, and personal attacks, will likely just be ignored, as he's been doing this long enough to not take the "bait". In message , Mury writes: > >Dear Alec, > >Since you basically called those of us pointing out some real issues >"whiners," I took the liberty of finding out a little bit more about >you. It looks like you are probably a fairly bright person, probably a >lot smarter than me. >From looking at your web site though and reading >your comments below I question how much you really understand what you are >talking about when you trivialize some of the issues that have been >brought up. > >I also find it interesting that in your presentation to the 11th NANOG >meeting that you did with Avi Freedman (Isn't he working for Digital >Island now? Or one of the other distributed content providers) you are >supporting a technology that not only assigns an IP address to a web site >but assigns multiple IP addresses to a single site. Perhaps I didn't >decipher your presentation correctly, but it sure seems like you are >supporting performance/service level issues above and beyond IP >conservation. Ah, I hear it coming, that each distributed node can handle >multiple distributed sites off of a single IP. Very true. Do you know >what the ratio of managed sites to in-service systems is? How many >locations is Akamai in? I really don't know what the IP "waste" ratio is. >But the point is you are supporting performance at the expense of IP >addresses however large or small that may be. > >In addition, you even argue against yourself. You say, "For example, >don't do all of the parsing at once at the end of the day; modify the >server to keep a running tally of a customer's usage and have it write >that alone to a file on the disk every time it changes. Far more >efficient. That's just off the top of my head, and probably not a really >efficient way to do it." > >What?! How can it be *far more efficient* and then in the next line it's >*not a really efficient*" Can you see why I'm not very thrilled with your >off the cuff and seemingly inexperienced comments? > >By making light of some real issues that were brought up it sure seems >like your statements are hypocritical. Now like I said, I'm not the >smartest guy out here, so if I've badly misrepresented things I apologize >in advance. > >Bottom line, for every one out there saying it's no big deal to do single >IP virtual hosting I would like to see a solution that does not sacrifice >reliability, accountability, quality of service, and functionality. I >hate it when people (even smart people) start voicing opinions on things >they don't understand. > >I'm also not stubborn. I'm not running things the way I do because it's >my way, but because they work, they are scalable, they are functionable, >and we have zero down time. I've tried Microsoft IIS. It doesn't work. >Well doh, of course it works, but not for a company that demands uptime >and security and a fast and simple database. I have to reboot co-located >IIS machines all the time. My BSDI/Apache/MySQL/Perl/PHP/Raven boxes have >had zero downtime in the last 3 years. That is not an invitation to hack >or DOS my network. But thanks for thinking about me. > >And like I said before, when appropriate we have assigned multiple sites >to a single IP. We actually do it by sending all requests into a CGI >script that grabs the HTTP_HOST env variable and creates the customized >web site on the fly with MySQL. So yes, we are trying to conserve IP >addresses, we are not greedy, whiny bastards trying to screw the Internet >up for everyone else. > >For those of you running Apache that want to know how to do it the right >way, go to: http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html > >Cool! Now we all know how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what >about all those HTTP/1.0 browsers!? You don't think they exist any >more? Check this out. In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of >one server from a selective time period. All my logs files are in the >www.domain.com format. Here are my commands and results: > >webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l > 400441 >webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l > 375412 > >48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my customers' sites used >HTTP/1.0. For the uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does >NOT support name based hosting. > >Can I tell all my customers to call you when their online business drops >by almost 50%. By the way, can you use a shared IP for secure server >certificates? > >Some more thoughts... > >Look at some of the new comers to the tech scene, Keynote, Akamai, >Speedera, Digital Island, etc. These company's success show how important >it is to the world to have fast, reliable, and secure web sites. Quality >of Service (in its broad definition) is paramount. And if you don't >believe that you can make a fortune by shorting the stock in those >companies. > >I don't want to see any more comments that I should be doing things >smarter and better. I want to see explanations of how I can accomplish >the things that you say are so easy. Like I said I'm not stubborn... show >me the way. If you can't, then please refrain from making popular >political statements that don't affect YOUR business and your customers' >business. > >There's my not so bright, whiny, long-winded $10 worth. > >Mury >GoldenGate Internet Services > >PS. If you are such an advocate for IP conservation why do you have a >whole block? I can't tell how many IPs you are wasting because your >provider has not swipped your block. But you have multiple web sites >running on multiple IPs! What's your excuse? > >Name: gw1.hilander.com >Address: 216.241.32.33 > >Name: virthost.hilander.com >Address: 216.241.32.35 > >Name: ramirez.hilander.com >Address: 216.241.32.34 > >Pretty interesting web sites I might add. > >If you are going to call someone a whiner you better have your own act >together. The hypocrisy is killing me. > >Like I said, I'm sure you are smarter than me, but stick to what you know. > > >On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > >> Mury wrote: >> > >> > Yikes! >> > >> > Have you ever tried to parse up to 1000 log files per system, with some of >> > them around 500MB in size. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds. >> >> It is if you change how you write and parse your logs. >> >> > >> > For some people it's feasable, but for most of us we *need* IP based >> > accounting. >> > >> > By the way, we are setup to do a large number of URL's pointed at a single >> > IP for some hosting applications, but for the majority of our sites, it is >> > not an option. >> >> Can't say that I have tried it. However at the same time I can think of >> quite a few ways to make the task far easier and faster. For example, don't >> do all of the parsing at once at the end of the day; modify the server to > keep a running tally of a customer's usage and have it write that alone to a >> file on the disk every time it changes. Far more efficient. >> >> That's just off the top of my head, and probably not a really efficient way >> to do it. My point is that the Internet is made up of a lot of smart people >> who are more than capable of solving these issues if they feel like it. >> Whining about how today's methods of accounting won't work with tomorrow's >> methods of virtual hosting is a lot like complaining about how yesterday's >> chalk writes really poorly on today's white boards. If you don't want to be >> left behind you have to keep on evolving. >> >> After all, where would we be today if dial-up providers decided that it was >> too much work to use dynamically allocated IP addresses and kept on giving >> each user their own IP address? >> >> However, name-based virtual hosts aren't exactly a new thing. Many large >> web hosters have been using name-based virtual hosts for a while now, so >> would any of those companies mind sharing a little wisdom on how this can be >> done? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Alec >> >> -- >> Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com >> Staff Scientist >> CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com >> "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" >> > > --- jerry@fc.net 512-519-6193 www.wayport.net 8303 Mopac Expressway Suite A300, Austin Tx. ------=_NextPart_000_008B_01C01CD8.780D8700 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello Scott,
 
Considering a large percentage of your = customers use=20 SSL there must
have been a mistake or misunderstanding = during the=20 review of your
request for additional IP address=20 space.
 
I will be contacting you personally = (off-list)=20 to discuss your request
and bring it to a = quick=20 resolution.
 
Best Regards,

Richard Jimmerson
American Registry for Internet = Numbers=20 (ARIN)

-----Original Message-----
From: = owner-arin-discuss@arin.net=20 [mailto:owner-arin-discuss@arin.net]On Behalf Of Host=20 Master
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:04 = PM
To:=20 arin-discuss@arin.net; ppml@arin.net
Subject: =

The exception is not true, we = recently=20 requested more IP space for web hosting and were denied because of the = new=20 policy. We had to valid reasons.

1. Search Engines blacklist by = IP and=20 account for submissions by IP, one of our biggest selling points is = that we=20 get great positioning in search engines.

2. Most of our clients have = HTTP 1.0=20 browsers, and are unable to upgrade because of company policies for = the=20 offices they work with.

3. A large percentage of our = clients use=20 SSL, we work in the real estate / mortgage field and the customers are = VERY=20 paranoid.

For all intents and purposes we = have been=20 cut off from around 40% of our client base. We have produced = documentation to=20 ARIN for both of these reasons and they still denied it citing "ARIN = official=20 policy is to deny IP base web hosting, no exceptions". We are being = forced to=20 request more address space from our upstream provider so that we can = cover the=20 sites that would like to be SSL.

This is not acceptable. This = forced change=20 has cost us a large (in our terms, we are not the largest company) = amount of=20 business, and forced us to loose business to competitors that just = host using=20 space from upstream providers. The reason we went to ARIN issued space = was for=20 portability across our providers, in the long run it may hurt us more = than the=20 benefit it will give us.

---
Scott Johnson
Director Of=20 Software Engineering
Advanced=20 Access
(714) = 685-5124=20
sjohnson@advancedaccess.com

-----Original = Message-----
From: Jeremy Porter [mailto:jerry@fc.net]

Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:35 = AM=20
To: Mury
Cc: Alec H. Peterson; Matt Bailey;=20 arin-discuss@arin.net; ppml@arin.net
Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting = justification=20



I don't think Alec has called = anyone=20 whiners.  The policy has been
discussed and as presented does not change the business = climate=20 for
for existing users = of=20 addresses.  For new assignments I quote:
http://www= .arin.net/announcements/policy_changes.html=20
        Exceptions may be made for ISPs that provide justification = for=20
        requiring static addresses. ARIN will determine, on a = case-by-case=20
        basis, whether an exception is appropriate.

If you are sure that your use = of one IP per=20 Host is justfiable, then
you should=20 have no problem getting an exception approved.
Perhaps if you are complaining maybe you = don't feel=20 that your
use has = technical=20 merit?

"Back in the day" when I ran an = ISP and Web=20 hosting business for a living,
we=20 used single IPs for WWW (http 1.1 didn't exist), assigned = static=20
IPs to all customers, = etc.  When new=20 technologies came about
and=20 policies changed, we followed.  We ended up renumber those = static=20
customers and some = significiant business=20 cost, because it was the
right=20 thing to do.  It wasn't easy, the customers didn't like = it,=20
it made accounting and access = control=20 harder.

With that said, theses issues = were=20 discussed at the ARIN policy meeting,
and there weren't huge objections, so the conclusion was = reached=20 that
there were = significant=20 objectors.  Luckily there is a meeting in
just a few weeks, where you are invited = to discusse=20 it more, and
perhaps = better wording=20 can be determined that would allow existing
operations to switch to more efficient = technologies=20 in a reasonable
time = frame, while=20 still encouraging better utilization of
IP addressing.

I'm sure if several vocal www = hosting=20 business pushed for changed wording
that still encouraged better utilization, that it would be=20 considered.
From my = recollection of=20 the last ARIN meeting there was a significant
lack of input from WWW hosting = companies, as there=20 were only a handful
present.=20

"Whining" (your words) about it = on the=20 mailing list might not be
enough.  Also I'd think you find Alec would be more than = willing
to help address = any=20 technical issues you might find, but telling him
"math is hard" isn't likely to win you = much, and=20 personal attacks, will
likely just=20 be ignored, as he's been doing this long enough to not take =
the "bait".


In message=20 <Pine.BSI.4.21.0009120008070.23889-100000@dew.goldengate.net>, = Mury=20
writes: =
>
>Dear Alec,
>=20
>Since you basically called = those of us=20 pointing out some real issues
>"whiners," I took the liberty of finding out a little bit = more=20 about
>you.  It = looks like=20 you are probably a fairly bright person, probably a
>lot smarter than me.  >From = looking at=20 your web site though and reading
>your comments below I question how much you really = understand what=20 you are
>talking = about when you=20 trivialize some of the issues that have been
>brought up.
>
>I = also find it=20 interesting that in your presentation to the 11th NANOG =
>meeting that you did with Avi = Freedman (Isn't he=20 working for Digital
>Island=20 now?  Or one of the other distributed content providers) you = are=20
>supporting a technology = that not only=20 assigns an IP address to a web site
>but assigns multiple IP addresses to a single site.  = Perhaps I=20 didn't
>decipher = your=20 presentation correctly, but it sure seems like you are =
>supporting performance/service level = issues=20 above and beyond IP
>conservation.  Ah, I hear it coming, that each = distributed=20 node can handle
>multiple=20 distributed sites off of a single IP.  Very true.  Do you=20 know
>what the ratio = of managed=20 sites to in-service systems is?  How many
>locations is Akamai in?  I = really don't=20 know what the IP "waste" ratio is. 
>But the point is you are supporting performance at the = expense of=20 IP
>addresses = however large or=20 small that may be.
>=20
>In addition, you even = argue against=20 yourself.  You say, "For example,
>don't do all of the parsing at once at the end of the = day; modify=20 the
>server to keep = a running=20 tally of a customer's usage and have it write
>that alone to a file on the disk = every time it=20 changes.  Far more
>efficient.  That's just off the top of my head, and = probably=20 not a really
>efficient way to=20 do it."
> =
>What?!  How can it be *far more = efficient*=20 and then in the next line it's
>*not a really efficient*"  Can you see why I'm not = very=20 thrilled with your
>off the cuff=20 and seemingly inexperienced comments?
>
>By = making light of=20 some real issues that were brought up it sure seems
>like your statements are = hypocritical.  Now=20 like I said, I'm not the
>smartest guy out here, so if I've badly misrepresented = things I=20 apologize
>in = advance.=20
>
>Bottom line, for every one out there saying it's no big = deal to do=20 single
>IP virtual = hosting I=20 would like to see a solution that does not sacrifice
>reliability, accountability, quality = of service,=20 and functionality.  I
>hate=20 it when people (even smart people) start voicing opinions on = things=20
>they don't = understand. =20
>
>I'm also not stubborn.  I'm not = running=20 things the way I do because it's
>my way, but because they work, they are scalable, they = are=20 functionable,
>and = we have zero=20 down time.  I've tried Microsoft IIS.  It doesn't = work. =20
>Well doh, of course = it works,=20 but not for a company that demands uptime
>and security and a fast and simple database.  I have = to reboot=20 co-located
>IIS = machines all the=20 time.  My BSDI/Apache/MySQL/Perl/PHP/Raven boxes have =
>had zero downtime in the last 3 = years. =20 That is not an invitation to hack
>or DOS my network.  But thanks for thinking about = me.=20
>
>And like I said before, when appropriate we have assigned = multiple=20 sites
>to a single = IP.  We=20 actually do it by sending all requests into a CGI
>script that grabs the HTTP_HOST env = variable and=20 creates the customized
>web site=20 on the fly with MySQL.  So yes, we are trying to conserve = IP=20
>addresses, we are not = greedy, whiny=20 bastards trying to screw the Internet
>up for everyone else.
>
>For = those of you=20 running Apache that want to know how to do it the right =
>way, go to:  http://www.apa= che.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html=20
>
>Cool!  Now we all know how to do name based = hosting... er,=20 wait... what
>about = all those=20 HTTP/1.0 browsers!?  You don't think they exist any =
>more?  Check this out.  In = fairness I=20 sampled all my virtual hosts off of
>one server from a selective time period.  All my = logs files=20 are in the
>www.domain.com=20 format.  Here are my commands and results:
>
>webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc = -l=20
>  400441 =
>webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' = www.*.com |=20 wc -l
>  = 375412=20
>
>48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my = customers' sites=20 used
>HTTP/1.0.  For the=20 uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does
>NOT support name based = hosting.
>
>Can I tell all my customers to call you when their online = business=20 drops
>by almost = 50%.  By=20 the way, can you use a shared IP for secure server
>certificates?
>
>Some more thoughts...
>
>Look = at some of the=20 new comers to the tech scene, Keynote, Akamai,
>Speedera, Digital Island, etc.  = These=20 company's success show how important
>it is to the world to have fast, reliable, and secure web = sites.  Quality
>of Service=20 (in its broad definition) is paramount.  And if you don't=20
>believe that you can make = a fortune by=20 shorting the stock in those
>companies.
>=20
>I don't want to see any = more comments=20 that I should be doing things
>smarter and better.  I want to see explanations of = how I can=20 accomplish
>the = things that you=20 say are so easy.  Like I said I'm not stubborn... show =
>me the way.  If you can't, then = please=20 refrain from making popular
>political statements that don't affect YOUR business and = your=20 customers'
>business.=20
>
>There's my not so bright, whiny, long-winded $10 = worth.=20
>
>Mury
>GoldenGate=20 Internet Services
>=20
>PS.  If you are such = an advocate=20 for IP conservation why do you have a
>whole block?  I can't tell how many IPs you are = wasting=20 because your
>provider has not=20 swipped your block.  But you have multiple web sites =
>running on multiple IPs!  = What's your=20 excuse?
> =
>Name:    = gw1.hilander.com=20
>Address:  = 216.241.32.33=20
>
>Name:    virthost.hilander.com =
>Address:  216.241.32.35 =
>
>Name:    ramirez.hilander.com =
>Address:  216.241.32.34 =
>
>Pretty interesting web sites I might add. =
>
>If you are going to call someone a whiner you better have = your own=20 act
>together.  = The=20 hypocrisy is killing me.
>
>Like = I said, I'm=20 sure you are smarter than me, but stick to what you know. =
>
>
>On = Mon, 11 Sep=20 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote:
>
>> = Mury=20 wrote:
>> >=20
>> > = Yikes!=20
>> >
>> > Have you ever tried to = parse up to=20 1000 log files per system, with some of
>> > them around 500MB in size.  It's not = nearly as easy=20 as it sounds.
>>=20
>> It is if you = change how=20 you write and parse your logs.
>>
>> >=20
>> > For some = people it's=20 feasable, but for most of us we *need* IP based
>> > accounting. =
>> >
>> > By the way, we are setup to do a large number = of URL's=20 pointed at a single
>> >=20 IP for some hosting applications, but for the majority of our sites, = it=20 is
>> > not an = option.
>> =
>> Can't say that I have tried = it. =20 However at the same time I can think of
>> quite a few ways to make the task far easier and = faster. =20 For example, don't
>> do all=20 of the parsing at once at the end of the day; modify the server = to=20
> keep a running tally of a = customer's=20 usage and have it write that alone to a
>> file on the disk every time it changes.  Far = more=20 efficient.
>>=20
>> That's just = off the top of=20 my head, and probably not a really efficient way
>> to do it.  My point is = that the=20 Internet is made up of a lot of smart people
>> who are more than capable of = solving these=20 issues if they feel like it.
>> Whining about how today's methods of accounting = won't work=20 with tomorrow's
>> methods of=20 virtual hosting is a lot like complaining about how yesterday's =
>> chalk writes really = poorly on=20 today's white boards.  If you don't want to be
>> left behind you have to keep on = evolving.
>> =
>> After all, where would we be = today if=20 dial-up providers decided that it was
>> too much work to use dynamically allocated IP = addresses and=20 kept on giving
>> = each user=20 their own IP address?
>>=20
>> However, = name-based=20 virtual hosts aren't exactly a new thing.  Many large =
>> web hosters have been using = name-based=20 virtual hosts for a while now, so
>> would any of those companies mind sharing a little = wisdom on=20 how this can be
>>=20 done?
>> =
>> Thanks,
>>
>>=20 Alec
>> =
>> --
>> Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com
>> Staff Scientist =
>> CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com=20
>> "Technology so = advanced, even=20 _we_ don't understand it!"
>>=20
>
>

--- jerry@fc.net

512-519-6193 = www.wayport.net=20
8303 Mopac Expressway Suite = A300, Austin=20 Tx.


------=_NextPart_000_008B_01C01CD8.780D8700-- From owner-ppml@arin.net Tue Sep 12 17:07:13 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA10089 for ppml-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:03:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA09756; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:59:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14062; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:59:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA16564; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:52:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:59:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: "Alec H. Peterson" cc: Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <39BE7EE7.F067161@hilander.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ppml@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR > > Instead of putting the clamps on the ISPs why not focus on: > > > > 1) Reclaiming unused IP space to hold us out a little longer > > That's already being done, but there's a big problem. ARIN doesn't have > authority over the major offenders (legacy /8s and /16s). The AC has had > long, involved discussions about how is best to do this, and we're working > on it. For example, our first goal is to re-claim address space of > companies that have gone out of business. If you have some ideas on how we > can do this we'd _love_ to hear them. I'm not sure where ARIN gets it's authority. Maybe the father of the Internet wants to save his creation and support a law giving ARIN the authority. Seriously, where does ARIN receive it's authority from? Why hasn't it been given the authority to reclaim unused space from legacy allocations? Maybe ARIN would like to clearly publish a list of those offenders and send them a nice letter asking them to comply with current allocation policies. If they don't want to cooperate, I suppose we could call the media and/or Null route their IPs until they want to play by the same rules we all need to. > > 2) Push a plan to get better client server technology out there, and once > > it is out there get people using it. As an rotten example, but feeling > > one is needed, what if the top 10 most popular sites had a message pop up > > that informed people if they were using an old browser and encouraged them > > to upgrade. > > Yuck! > > I mean, it's an idea, but I see where you're going... Actually from the recent contributions to the list it appears as though the HTTP/1.0 issues are far less a problem than I first perceived. I would however like to see some real statistics. > > I'm not bitching just to bitch. I'm looking out for my ecommerce > > customers. 90% of my revenue comes from businesses. If I don't watch out > > for their bottom line, they sure the hell aren't going to look out for > > mine. If I switch them to a name-based system, before the world is ready > > for it and they lose hits do to software incompatibilites, or don't notice > > that their traffic died, or they can't see how effective a commercial was > > by using real-time accounting stats, or one of my customers gets DOSed and > > I can't control the traffic at my core routers or at my upstream so I have > > to take everyone down because they all share an IP, they are going to host > > with someone who cheats the system and gets them an IP. > > Those are legitimate gripes. > > Can we come up with reasonable solutions to them? Well, what is the realistic possibility of making that "policy" a "guideline?" Give ISPs 6 months to essentially self-comply. If web hosting IP usage drops a significant percentage, then we declare a success. If usage does not drop, have a policy ready with more details. What exactly constitutes an exception? Obviously secure servers are an exception, but what about bandwidth based accounting, or high bandwidth sites (and if so, where is the line drawn?) I realize I might be living in a dream world thinking most ISPs will rapidly change if not forced to, but it's not an impossible task to convince them either. It's actually easy to configure multiple sites to one IP than to multiple IPs. I really don't know. I'd personally rather spend my time and money trying to get back massive chunks of unused IPs from those knowingly or unknowingly abusing them, and wait for technologies to mature a little more before cracking down on web hosting IPs. > No, you aren't the only one, but at the same time, there were a huge number > of people at the last ARIN meeting who were in support of this policy, > however most of them have been silent through most of this (perhaps because > they feel they already made their feelings known at the last meeting). > > And as far as being labled a trouble-maker, I know plenty of people who have > been far more vocal about ARIN policy than you and have had no problem > getting address space. Please don't spread the mis-conception that ARIN is > anything other than an objective organization. It isn't true and it makes > everyone's life much more difficult in getting support for the organization. Oh, if I thought that were true, I wouldn't be writing this or previous emails. I obviously don't think ARIN is going to treat my allocations differently than the next person. I'm just guessing as to why others emailed only me and not the group. > > If eliminate multiple IPs I'm unsure how to: > > > > 1) Address the HTTP/1.0 issues in an acceptable clean fashion > > See other discussions; the issue of legacy browsers IMO is a red herring. > It exists, but it's really small. Is sure seems that way. I'd still like to see *real* statistics. > > 2) Do real time web accounting. Remember we buy bandwidth by the Mbit, so > > we need to sell it by the Mbit > > Doing bandwidth (as opposed to bytes transfered per period of time) billing > is tough, although it sounds like more and more vendors are starting to sell > equipment that handles this. > > > 3) Provide controls against DOS attacks. No we don't host porn sites > > But those are the money-makers! :-) > > Seriously, I understand the DOS issue all too well, and it does need to be > addressed. Not sure how to at this point, except to say that this policy is > really targeted towards the bottom-of-the-line web hosting accounts. If you > have a customer who has a lot of traffic, pays you a lot of money and can't > afford to be off the air then it makes perfect sense to have him on a > dedicated IP (I think at least). Well, that doesn't totally work. Because if someone on the main IP gets attacked I have to shut all sites down on that IP, so it's not just a matter of keeping my one big customer up, it's a matter of keeping 1000 sites up that only pay $50/month but adds up to $50,000.00/month in total. When everyone has their own IP, you can simply Null route their IP if trouble starts. In all fairness, I only have to do this a handful of times per year, but the times I have it has probably saved me hours if not days of down time. There is no way to predict if www.photos.com, www.ilikeredmeat.com, www.gotochurch.com is going to be the one that gets attacked. This issue is not a massive one. > > 4) Provide secure server certificates > > That qualifies as an exception. > > > 5) Provide database support from server to server. I'm not a programmer > > any more so I don't know how big an issue it is, but my programmer told me > > it would be a mess > > Not sure exactly what you're trying to do with server to server DB support > (more to the point why it would be a problem). If your backend hosting databases reside on different computers than your hosting does, you probably are going to have issues with name based hosting. However, I am far enough out of this arena personally to be able to explain why. Once again this is a relatively small issue, at least for us. Most of our databases do reside on the hosting server. > > Actually I think the policy would make a wonderful "Guideline". It > > shouldn't affect IP allocation, but it should be encouraged at this time. > > That's actually been proposed on another list, although I'm really not sure > if that would affect what people do. Anybody else have thoughts? > > > > > As someone pointed out. Apparently HTTP/1.0 can support name based > > hosting. I was unaware of this. > > > > And if that truely is the case, I would like to see some numbers. I would > > have guessed ARIN would know this before instituting a policy. Perhaps > > they would like to share. > > The numbers we got came from our members. I believe Gene had some extensive > data. Gene, do you want to share that data with the list? > > Alec, I understand your and ARIN's points. However if a "policy" is going > > to be created and enforced I think we some of these issues need to be > > better addressed and defined so legit ISPs don't have to wait over a > > month to get new IP space and go through a process of defending web > > hosting IP space. > > Which is why we really need more participation. Fortunately this policy > change has brought more of it forward, but as I said above we need a better > way to tally opinions in a fair manner... Someone sent me an email suggesting a poll on your web site using handles as an ID so only members could vote, and they could only vote once. As a side note, from the lack of participation in this list it appears that either: 1) Not many ISPs are subscribed to this list 2) They aren't receiving the messages 3) They are too busy to care, or 4) I'm one of only about 10-20 people that feel strongly about this policy Whatever the case is, I have a business to run, and I've said my peace. I can't stick up for the rest of them. For all the reasons I've stated I think this policy is both too undefined in that it lacks the explanations of exceptions (currently it looks like exceptions would be left up to the discretion of the individual staff person working on the account), and that it is premature. For the record, I tried to participate. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services From owner-ppml@arin.net Tue Sep 12 17:07:13 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA10089 for ppml-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:03:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA09756; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:59:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14062; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:59:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA16564; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:52:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:59:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: "Alec H. Peterson" cc: Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <39BE7EE7.F067161@hilander.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ppml@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR > > Instead of putting the clamps on the ISPs why not focus on: > > > > 1) Reclaiming unused IP space to hold us out a little longer > > That's already being done, but there's a big problem. ARIN doesn't have > authority over the major offenders (legacy /8s and /16s). The AC has had > long, involved discussions about how is best to do this, and we're working > on it. For example, our first goal is to re-claim address space of > companies that have gone out of business. If you have some ideas on how we > can do this we'd _love_ to hear them. I'm not sure where ARIN gets it's authority. Maybe the father of the Internet wants to save his creation and support a law giving ARIN the authority. Seriously, where does ARIN receive it's authority from? Why hasn't it been given the authority to reclaim unused space from legacy allocations? Maybe ARIN would like to clearly publish a list of those offenders and send them a nice letter asking them to comply with current allocation policies. If they don't want to cooperate, I suppose we could call the media and/or Null route their IPs until they want to play by the same rules we all need to. > > 2) Push a plan to get better client server technology out there, and once > > it is out there get people using it. As an rotten example, but feeling > > one is needed, what if the top 10 most popular sites had a message pop up > > that informed people if they were using an old browser and encouraged them > > to upgrade. > > Yuck! > > I mean, it's an idea, but I see where you're going... Actually from the recent contributions to the list it appears as though the HTTP/1.0 issues are far less a problem than I first perceived. I would however like to see some real statistics. > > I'm not bitching just to bitch. I'm looking out for my ecommerce > > customers. 90% of my revenue comes from businesses. If I don't watch out > > for their bottom line, they sure the hell aren't going to look out for > > mine. If I switch them to a name-based system, before the world is ready > > for it and they lose hits do to software incompatibilites, or don't notice > > that their traffic died, or they can't see how effective a commercial was > > by using real-time accounting stats, or one of my customers gets DOSed and > > I can't control the traffic at my core routers or at my upstream so I have > > to take everyone down because they all share an IP, they are going to host > > with someone who cheats the system and gets them an IP. > > Those are legitimate gripes. > > Can we come up with reasonable solutions to them? Well, what is the realistic possibility of making that "policy" a "guideline?" Give ISPs 6 months to essentially self-comply. If web hosting IP usage drops a significant percentage, then we declare a success. If usage does not drop, have a policy ready with more details. What exactly constitutes an exception? Obviously secure servers are an exception, but what about bandwidth based accounting, or high bandwidth sites (and if so, where is the line drawn?) I realize I might be living in a dream world thinking most ISPs will rapidly change if not forced to, but it's not an impossible task to convince them either. It's actually easy to configure multiple sites to one IP than to multiple IPs. I really don't know. I'd personally rather spend my time and money trying to get back massive chunks of unused IPs from those knowingly or unknowingly abusing them, and wait for technologies to mature a little more before cracking down on web hosting IPs. > No, you aren't the only one, but at the same time, there were a huge number > of people at the last ARIN meeting who were in support of this policy, > however most of them have been silent through most of this (perhaps because > they feel they already made their feelings known at the last meeting). > > And as far as being labled a trouble-maker, I know plenty of people who have > been far more vocal about ARIN policy than you and have had no problem > getting address space. Please don't spread the mis-conception that ARIN is > anything other than an objective organization. It isn't true and it makes > everyone's life much more difficult in getting support for the organization. Oh, if I thought that were true, I wouldn't be writing this or previous emails. I obviously don't think ARIN is going to treat my allocations differently than the next person. I'm just guessing as to why others emailed only me and not the group. > > If eliminate multiple IPs I'm unsure how to: > > > > 1) Address the HTTP/1.0 issues in an acceptable clean fashion > > See other discussions; the issue of legacy browsers IMO is a red herring. > It exists, but it's really small. Is sure seems that way. I'd still like to see *real* statistics. > > 2) Do real time web accounting. Remember we buy bandwidth by the Mbit, so > > we need to sell it by the Mbit > > Doing bandwidth (as opposed to bytes transfered per period of time) billing > is tough, although it sounds like more and more vendors are starting to sell > equipment that handles this. > > > 3) Provide controls against DOS attacks. No we don't host porn sites > > But those are the money-makers! :-) > > Seriously, I understand the DOS issue all too well, and it does need to be > addressed. Not sure how to at this point, except to say that this policy is > really targeted towards the bottom-of-the-line web hosting accounts. If you > have a customer who has a lot of traffic, pays you a lot of money and can't > afford to be off the air then it makes perfect sense to have him on a > dedicated IP (I think at least). Well, that doesn't totally work. Because if someone on the main IP gets attacked I have to shut all sites down on that IP, so it's not just a matter of keeping my one big customer up, it's a matter of keeping 1000 sites up that only pay $50/month but adds up to $50,000.00/month in total. When everyone has their own IP, you can simply Null route their IP if trouble starts. In all fairness, I only have to do this a handful of times per year, but the times I have it has probably saved me hours if not days of down time. There is no way to predict if www.photos.com, www.ilikeredmeat.com, www.gotochurch.com is going to be the one that gets attacked. This issue is not a massive one. > > 4) Provide secure server certificates > > That qualifies as an exception. > > > 5) Provide database support from server to server. I'm not a programmer > > any more so I don't know how big an issue it is, but my programmer told me > > it would be a mess > > Not sure exactly what you're trying to do with server to server DB support > (more to the point why it would be a problem). If your backend hosting databases reside on different computers than your hosting does, you probably are going to have issues with name based hosting. However, I am far enough out of this arena personally to be able to explain why. Once again this is a relatively small issue, at least for us. Most of our databases do reside on the hosting server. > > Actually I think the policy would make a wonderful "Guideline". It > > shouldn't affect IP allocation, but it should be encouraged at this time. > > That's actually been proposed on another list, although I'm really not sure > if that would affect what people do. Anybody else have thoughts? > > > > > As someone pointed out. Apparently HTTP/1.0 can support name based > > hosting. I was unaware of this. > > > > And if that truely is the case, I would like to see some numbers. I would > > have guessed ARIN would know this before instituting a policy. Perhaps > > they would like to share. > > The numbers we got came from our members. I believe Gene had some extensive > data. Gene, do you want to share that data with the list? > > Alec, I understand your and ARIN's points. However if a "policy" is going > > to be created and enforced I think we some of these issues need to be > > better addressed and defined so legit ISPs don't have to wait over a > > month to get new IP space and go through a process of defending web > > hosting IP space. > > Which is why we really need more participation. Fortunately this policy > change has brought more of it forward, but as I said above we need a better > way to tally opinions in a fair manner... Someone sent me an email suggesting a poll on your web site using handles as an ID so only members could vote, and they could only vote once. As a side note, from the lack of participation in this list it appears that either: 1) Not many ISPs are subscribed to this list 2) They aren't receiving the messages 3) They are too busy to care, or 4) I'm one of only about 10-20 people that feel strongly about this policy Whatever the case is, I have a business to run, and I've said my peace. I can't stick up for the rest of them. For all the reasons I've stated I think this policy is both too undefined in that it lacks the explanations of exceptions (currently it looks like exceptions would be left up to the discretion of the individual staff person working on the account), and that it is premature. For the record, I tried to participate. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services From owner-ppml@arin.net Tue Sep 12 23:18:34 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id XAA03836 for ppml-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:15:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA03823; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:15:05 -0400 (EDT) From: dan@netrail.net Received: from macdaddy.netrail.net (macdaddy.netrail.net [207.153.88.248]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA22976; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:15:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by macdaddy.netrail.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA18203; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:12:57 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: macdaddy.netrail.net: dan owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:12:57 -0400 (EDT) To: Mury cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ppml@arin.net Precedence: bulk X-Status: Status: OR Oh come on. ARIN has not actual legal authority of any kind. It operates across national borders, and is subject to no laws regulating it's powers. It's only true ability is to convince providers to route only those addresses it assigns. Given this, it has all the authority it needs to retrieve unused blocks. Daniel Golding Director of R&D "I'm not evil. I'm just drawn that way" NetRail, Inc. 1-888-NetRail On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Mury wrote: > > > > Instead of putting the clamps on the ISPs why not focus on: > > > > > > 1) Reclaiming unused IP space to hold us out a little longer > > > > That's already being done, but there's a big problem. ARIN doesn't have > > authority over the major offenders (legacy /8s and /16s). The AC has had > > long, involved discussions about how is best to do this, and we're working > > on it. For example, our first goal is to re-claim address space of > > companies that have gone out of business. If you have some ideas on how we > > can do this we'd _love_ to hear them. > > I'm not sure where ARIN gets it's authority. Maybe the father of the > Internet wants to save his creation and support a law giving ARIN the > authority. Seriously, where does ARIN receive it's authority from? Why > hasn't it been given the authority to reclaim unused space from legacy > allocations? > > Maybe ARIN would like to clearly publish a list of those offenders and > send them a nice letter asking them to comply with current allocation > policies. If they don't want to cooperate, I suppose we could call the > media and/or Null route their IPs until they want to play by the same > rules we all need to. > > > > 2) Push a plan to get better client server technology out there, and once > > > it is out there get people using it. As an rotten example, but feeling > > > one is needed, what if the top 10 most popular sites had a message pop up > > > that informed people if they were using an old browser and encouraged them > > > to upgrade. > > > > Yuck! > > > > I mean, it's an idea, but I see where you're going... > > Actually from the recent contributions to the list it appears as though > the HTTP/1.0 issues are far less a problem than I first perceived. I > would however like to see some real statistics. > > > > I'm not bitching just to bitch. I'm looking out for my ecommerce > > > customers. 90% of my revenue comes from businesses. If I don't watch out > > > for their bottom line, they sure the hell aren't going to look out for > > > mine. If I switch them to a name-based system, before the world is ready > > > for it and they lose hits do to software incompatibilites, or don't notice > > > that their traffic died, or they can't see how effective a commercial was > > > by using real-time accounting stats, or one of my customers gets DOSed and > > > I can't control the traffic at my core routers or at my upstream so I have > > > to take everyone down because they all share an IP, they are going to host > > > with someone who cheats the system and gets them an IP. > > > > Those are legitimate gripes. > > > > Can we come up with reasonable solutions to them? > > Well, what is the realistic possibility of making that "policy" a > "guideline?" Give ISPs 6 months to essentially self-comply. If web > hosting IP usage drops a significant percentage, then we declare a > success. > > If usage does not drop, have a policy ready with more details. What > exactly constitutes an exception? Obviously secure servers are an > exception, but what about bandwidth based accounting, or high bandwidth > sites (and if so, where is the line drawn?) > > I realize I might be living in a dream world thinking most ISPs will > rapidly change if not forced to, but it's not an impossible task to > convince them either. It's actually easy to configure multiple sites to > one IP than to multiple IPs. > > I really don't know. I'd personally rather spend my time and money trying > to get back massive chunks of unused IPs from those knowingly or > unknowingly abusing them, and wait for technologies to mature a little > more before cracking down on web hosting IPs. > > > No, you aren't the only one, but at the same time, there were a huge number > > of people at the last ARIN meeting who were in support of this policy, > > however most of them have been silent through most of this (perhaps because > > they feel they already made their feelings known at the last meeting). > > > > And as far as being labled a trouble-maker, I know plenty of people who have > > been far more vocal about ARIN policy than you and have had no problem > > getting address space. Please don't spread the mis-conception that ARIN is > > anything other than an objective organization. It isn't true and it makes > > everyone's life much more difficult in getting support for the organization. > > Oh, if I thought that were true, I wouldn't be writing this or previous > emails. I obviously don't think ARIN is going to treat my allocations > differently than the next person. I'm just guessing as to why others > emailed only me and not the group. > > > > If eliminate multiple IPs I'm unsure how to: > > > > > > 1) Address the HTTP/1.0 issues in an acceptable clean fashion > > > > See other discussions; the issue of legacy browsers IMO is a red herring. > > It exists, but it's really small. > > Is sure seems that way. I'd still like to see *real* statistics. > > > > 2) Do real time web accounting. Remember we buy bandwidth by the Mbit, so > > > we need to sell it by the Mbit > > > > Doing bandwidth (as opposed to bytes transfered per period of time) billing > > is tough, although it sounds like more and more vendors are starting to sell > > equipment that handles this. > > > > > 3) Provide controls against DOS attacks. No we don't host porn sites > > > > But those are the money-makers! :-) > > > > Seriously, I understand the DOS issue all too well, and it does need to be > > addressed. Not sure how to at this point, except to say that this policy is > > really targeted towards the bottom-of-the-line web hosting accounts. If you > > have a customer who has a lot of traffic, pays you a lot of money and can't > > afford to be off the air then it makes perfect sense to have him on a > > dedicated IP (I think at least). > > Well, that doesn't totally work. Because if someone on the main IP gets > attacked I have to shut all sites down on that IP, so it's not just a > matter of keeping my one big customer up, it's a matter of keeping 1000 > sites up that only pay $50/month but adds up to $50,000.00/month in > total. When everyone has their own IP, you can simply Null route their IP > if trouble starts. > > In all fairness, I only have to do this a handful of times per year, but > the times I have it has probably saved me hours if not days of down time. > There is no way to predict if www.photos.com, www.ilikeredmeat.com, > www.gotochurch.com is going to be the one that gets attacked. > > This issue is not a massive one. > > > > 4) Provide secure server certificates > > > > That qualifies as an exception. > > > > > 5) Provide database support from server to server. I'm not a programmer > > > any more so I don't know how big an issue it is, but my programmer told me > > > it would be a mess > > > > Not sure exactly what you're trying to do with server to server DB support > > (more to the point why it would be a problem). > > If your backend hosting databases reside on different computers than your > hosting does, you probably are going to have issues with name based > hosting. However, I am far enough out of this arena personally to be able > to explain why. > > Once again this is a relatively small issue, at least for us. Most of our > databases do reside on the hosting server. > > > > Actually I think the policy would make a wonderful "Guideline". It > > > shouldn't affect IP allocation, but it should be encouraged at this time. > > > > That's actually been proposed on another list, although I'm really not sure > > if that would affect what people do. Anybody else have thoughts? > > > > > > > > As someone pointed out. Apparently HTTP/1.0 can support name based > > > hosting. I was unaware of this. > > > > > > And if that truely is the case, I would like to see some numbers. I would > > > have guessed ARIN would know this before instituting a policy. Perhaps > > > they would like to share. > > > > The numbers we got came from our members. I believe Gene had some extensive > > data. > > Gene, do you want to share that data with the list? > > > > Alec, I understand your and ARIN's points. However if a "policy" is going > > > to be created and enforced I think we some of these issues need to be > > > better addressed and defined so legit ISPs don't have to wait over a > > > month to get new IP space and go through a process of defending web > > > hosting IP space. > > > > Which is why we really need more participation. Fortunately this policy > > change has brought more of it forward, but as I said above we need a better > > way to tally opinions in a fair manner... > > Someone sent me an email suggesting a poll on your web site using handles > as an ID so only members could vote, and they could only vote once. > > As a side note, from the lack of participation in this list it appears > that either: > > 1) Not many ISPs are subscribed to this list > 2) They aren't receiving the messages > 3) They are too busy to care, or > 4) I'm one of only about 10-20 people that feel strongly about this policy > > Whatever the case is, I have a business to run, and I've said my > peace. I can't stick up for the rest of them. > > For all the reasons I've stated I think this policy is both too undefined > in that it lacks the explanations of exceptions (currently it looks like > exceptions would be left up to the discretion of the individual staff > person working on the account), and that it is premature. > > For the record, I tried to participate. > > Mury > GoldenGate Internet Services > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 01:28:26 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id BAA27378 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:20:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id BAA27374; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:20:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA24002; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:20:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA05036; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:13:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:20:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: dan@netrail.net cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR That's what I was subtly getting at. On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 dan@netrail.net wrote: > Oh come on. ARIN has not actual legal authority of any kind. It operates > across national borders, and is subject to no laws regulating it's powers. > It's only true ability is to convince providers to route only those > addresses it assigns. Given this, it has all the authority it needs to > retrieve unused blocks. > > > Daniel Golding > Director of R&D "I'm not evil. I'm just drawn that way" > NetRail, Inc. > 1-888-NetRail > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Mury wrote: > > > > > > > Instead of putting the clamps on the ISPs why not focus on: > > > > > > > > 1) Reclaiming unused IP space to hold us out a little longer > > > > > > That's already being done, but there's a big problem. ARIN doesn't have > > > authority over the major offenders (legacy /8s and /16s). The AC has had > > > long, involved discussions about how is best to do this, and we're working > > > on it. For example, our first goal is to re-claim address space of > > > companies that have gone out of business. If you have some ideas on how we > > > can do this we'd _love_ to hear them. > > > > I'm not sure where ARIN gets it's authority. Maybe the father of the > > Internet wants to save his creation and support a law giving ARIN the > > authority. Seriously, where does ARIN receive it's authority from? Why > > hasn't it been given the authority to reclaim unused space from legacy > > allocations? > > > > Maybe ARIN would like to clearly publish a list of those offenders and > > send them a nice letter asking them to comply with current allocation > > policies. If they don't want to cooperate, I suppose we could call the > > media and/or Null route their IPs until they want to play by the same > > rules we all need to. > > > > > > 2) Push a plan to get better client server technology out there, and once > > > > it is out there get people using it. As an rotten example, but feeling > > > > one is needed, what if the top 10 most popular sites had a message pop up > > > > that informed people if they were using an old browser and encouraged them > > > > to upgrade. > > > > > > Yuck! > > > > > > I mean, it's an idea, but I see where you're going... > > > > Actually from the recent contributions to the list it appears as though > > the HTTP/1.0 issues are far less a problem than I first perceived. I > > would however like to see some real statistics. > > > > > > I'm not bitching just to bitch. I'm looking out for my ecommerce > > > > customers. 90% of my revenue comes from businesses. If I don't watch out > > > > for their bottom line, they sure the hell aren't going to look out for > > > > mine. If I switch them to a name-based system, before the world is ready > > > > for it and they lose hits do to software incompatibilites, or don't notice > > > > that their traffic died, or they can't see how effective a commercial was > > > > by using real-time accounting stats, or one of my customers gets DOSed and > > > > I can't control the traffic at my core routers or at my upstream so I have > > > > to take everyone down because they all share an IP, they are going to host > > > > with someone who cheats the system and gets them an IP. > > > > > > Those are legitimate gripes. > > > > > > Can we come up with reasonable solutions to them? > > > > Well, what is the realistic possibility of making that "policy" a > > "guideline?" Give ISPs 6 months to essentially self-comply. If web > > hosting IP usage drops a significant percentage, then we declare a > > success. > > > > If usage does not drop, have a policy ready with more details. What > > exactly constitutes an exception? Obviously secure servers are an > > exception, but what about bandwidth based accounting, or high bandwidth > > sites (and if so, where is the line drawn?) > > > > I realize I might be living in a dream world thinking most ISPs will > > rapidly change if not forced to, but it's not an impossible task to > > convince them either. It's actually easy to configure multiple sites to > > one IP than to multiple IPs. > > > > I really don't know. I'd personally rather spend my time and money trying > > to get back massive chunks of unused IPs from those knowingly or > > unknowingly abusing them, and wait for technologies to mature a little > > more before cracking down on web hosting IPs. > > > > > No, you aren't the only one, but at the same time, there were a huge number > > > of people at the last ARIN meeting who were in support of this policy, > > > however most of them have been silent through most of this (perhaps because > > > they feel they already made their feelings known at the last meeting). > > > > > > And as far as being labled a trouble-maker, I know plenty of people who have > > > been far more vocal about ARIN policy than you and have had no problem > > > getting address space. Please don't spread the mis-conception that ARIN is > > > anything other than an objective organization. It isn't true and it makes > > > everyone's life much more difficult in getting support for the organization. > > > > Oh, if I thought that were true, I wouldn't be writing this or previous > > emails. I obviously don't think ARIN is going to treat my allocations > > differently than the next person. I'm just guessing as to why others > > emailed only me and not the group. > > > > > > If eliminate multiple IPs I'm unsure how to: > > > > > > > > 1) Address the HTTP/1.0 issues in an acceptable clean fashion > > > > > > See other discussions; the issue of legacy browsers IMO is a red herring. > > > It exists, but it's really small. > > > > Is sure seems that way. I'd still like to see *real* statistics. > > > > > > 2) Do real time web accounting. Remember we buy bandwidth by the Mbit, so > > > > we need to sell it by the Mbit > > > > > > Doing bandwidth (as opposed to bytes transfered per period of time) billing > > > is tough, although it sounds like more and more vendors are starting to sell > > > equipment that handles this. > > > > > > > 3) Provide controls against DOS attacks. No we don't host porn sites > > > > > > But those are the money-makers! :-) > > > > > > Seriously, I understand the DOS issue all too well, and it does need to be > > > addressed. Not sure how to at this point, except to say that this policy is > > > really targeted towards the bottom-of-the-line web hosting accounts. If you > > > have a customer who has a lot of traffic, pays you a lot of money and can't > > > afford to be off the air then it makes perfect sense to have him on a > > > dedicated IP (I think at least). > > > > Well, that doesn't totally work. Because if someone on the main IP gets > > attacked I have to shut all sites down on that IP, so it's not just a > > matter of keeping my one big customer up, it's a matter of keeping 1000 > > sites up that only pay $50/month but adds up to $50,000.00/month in > > total. When everyone has their own IP, you can simply Null route their IP > > if trouble starts. > > > > In all fairness, I only have to do this a handful of times per year, but > > the times I have it has probably saved me hours if not days of down time. > > There is no way to predict if www.photos.com, www.ilikeredmeat.com, > > www.gotochurch.com is going to be the one that gets attacked. > > > > This issue is not a massive one. > > > > > > 4) Provide secure server certificates > > > > > > That qualifies as an exception. > > > > > > > 5) Provide database support from server to server. I'm not a programmer > > > > any more so I don't know how big an issue it is, but my programmer told me > > > > it would be a mess > > > > > > Not sure exactly what you're trying to do with server to server DB support > > > (more to the point why it would be a problem). > > > > If your backend hosting databases reside on different computers than your > > hosting does, you probably are going to have issues with name based > > hosting. However, I am far enough out of this arena personally to be able > > to explain why. > > > > Once again this is a relatively small issue, at least for us. Most of our > > databases do reside on the hosting server. > > > > > > Actually I think the policy would make a wonderful "Guideline". It > > > > shouldn't affect IP allocation, but it should be encouraged at this time. > > > > > > That's actually been proposed on another list, although I'm really not sure > > > if that would affect what people do. Anybody else have thoughts? > > > > > > > > > > > As someone pointed out. Apparently HTTP/1.0 can support name based > > > > hosting. I was unaware of this. > > > > > > > > And if that truely is the case, I would like to see some numbers. I would > > > > have guessed ARIN would know this before instituting a policy. Perhaps > > > > they would like to share. > > > > > > The numbers we got came from our members. I believe Gene had some extensive > > > data. > > > > Gene, do you want to share that data with the list? > > > > > > Alec, I understand your and ARIN's points. However if a "policy" is going > > > > to be created and enforced I think we some of these issues need to be > > > > better addressed and defined so legit ISPs don't have to wait over a > > > > month to get new IP space and go through a process of defending web > > > > hosting IP space. > > > > > > Which is why we really need more participation. Fortunately this policy > > > change has brought more of it forward, but as I said above we need a better > > > way to tally opinions in a fair manner... > > > > Someone sent me an email suggesting a poll on your web site using handles > > as an ID so only members could vote, and they could only vote once. > > > > As a side note, from the lack of participation in this list it appears > > that either: > > > > 1) Not many ISPs are subscribed to this list > > 2) They aren't receiving the messages > > 3) They are too busy to care, or > > 4) I'm one of only about 10-20 people that feel strongly about this policy > > > > Whatever the case is, I have a business to run, and I've said my > > peace. I can't stick up for the rest of them. > > > > For all the reasons I've stated I think this policy is both too undefined > > in that it lacks the explanations of exceptions (currently it looks like > > exceptions would be left up to the discretion of the individual staff > > person working on the account), and that it is premature. > > > > For the record, I tried to participate. > > > > Mury > > GoldenGate Internet Services > > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 10:14:23 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA06485 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:09:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA06473; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:09:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02668; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:09:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id AD2FD3DBF; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:09:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:09:37 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913090937.A4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:50:05AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:50:05AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Speaking to your request for a solution to your accounting woes, I really > don't think you want that from ARIN. See, if that happens then people will > start screaming about how ARIN dictates the way people must do business, > which gets into another rat-hole that we really don't want to go down. > There are many ways to skin this cat. But with this policy, ARIN is now dictating business. :) -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 10:23:51 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA07438 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:20:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA07348; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:20:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27976; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:19:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id E57073DBF; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:15:32 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:15:32 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913091532.B4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:50:05AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:50:05AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > My point was that I can't stand excuses for doing 'the right thing', > especially when people insist on working against an organization that is > only trying to help. ARIN is not making these policy changes to make > everybodys' lives more difficult. ARIN is making the changes because it has > a responsibility to stretch IP space in its region of the world as far as > possible. ARIN could help stretch IP space by running around the different net blocks and finding the unused space and reclaiming it. Sure, there will be some pissed off people who have /16s that they are using maybe a /22 out of, but so what? That is a lot of address space that can be reassigned. We pay ARIN a fee to 'manage' our IP space, I would like some of that fee to go to reclaimation of wasted IP space by small colleges, small companies, and individuals who have who have space they aren't using. This name-based virtual hosting item is something that is going to take time to recover from, period, and when I go to ARIN in a couple of weeks there is no way in hell I will be able to convert current customers to it, nor can I convert 70% of them and I will need to figure out how to resolve that issue. The points are: dropping the bomb is not fun, this new decision, while made with other ARIN members, was sudden in its announcement and did not give anyone a chance to start the cleanup before the punishment is handed out. there are a ton of IPs available on the 'net that are allocated and underused - relaim those and these worries about IP depletion can be put off for another couple of years. random people with random comments about how my business is supposed to be run is just not nice. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 10:39:09 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA09321 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:35:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA08864; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:33:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21157; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:33:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13ZDbT-0001Py-00; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:33:35 -0600 Message-ID: <39BF903F.5A62457A@hilander.com> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:33:35 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Horwath CC: Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net, arin-members@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com> <20000913091532.B4436@Geeks.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Mike Horwath wrote: > > ARIN could help stretch IP space by running around the different net > blocks and finding the unused space and reclaiming it. > > Sure, there will be some pissed off people who have /16s that they are > using maybe a /22 out of, but so what? That is a lot of address space > that can be reassigned. ARIN should, but in reality that is IANA's job. This isn't ARIN trying to pass the buck, it's just due to the way the whole Internet governance structure has been setup. And it's a really tricky job at that. > > We pay ARIN a fee to 'manage' our IP space, I would like some of that > fee to go to reclaimation of wasted IP space by small colleges, small > companies, and individuals who have who have space they aren't using. See above. The AC has talked about how to reclaim space several times, but the fact remains that ARIN doesn't have the authority to just wrench space from any entity. > > The points are: > > dropping the bomb is not fun, this new decision, while made > with other ARIN members, was sudden in its announcement and > did not give anyone a chance to start the cleanup before the > punishment is handed out. That is certainly a valid point. We should re-think how we announce future policy changes in that case. > > there are a ton of IPs available on the 'net that are > allocated and underused - relaim those and these worries about > IP depletion can be put off for another couple of years. See above. > > random people with random comments about how my business is > supposed to be run is just not nice. You call it dictating how your business is supposed to run, and that's fine. One could argue that ARIN has been telling dialup ISPs how to run their business for years, but I haven't heard any complaints to that affect. Look, I want to see the policy changed so that all ARIN members feel their opinions have been represented. Here's what I'm going to do. Anybody who wants to see the policy changed in some SPECIFIC way AND is not going to make it to the meeting in Herndon send e-mail directly to me (ahp@hilander.com) with the subject ARIN WEB HOSTING. Please only put your suggestions for how to fix what you don't like about the policy in there, with some reasoning behind it so that I can pass that long to the membership at large at the meeting. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 11:41:22 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA19506 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:37:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA19478; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:37:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10017; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:37:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 68B633DBF; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:37:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:37:25 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913103725.C4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:50:05AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:50:05AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Mury wrote: > > Cool! Now we all know how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what > > about all those HTTP/1.0 browsers!? You don't think they exist any > > more? Check this out. In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of > > one server from a selective time period. All my logs files are in the > > www.domain.com format. Here are my commands and results: > > > > webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l > > 400441 > > webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l > > 375412 > > > > 48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my customers' sites used > > HTTP/1.0. For the uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does > > NOT support name based hosting. > > That's the first number I've seen on the subject that is greater that 2%, > and I will confess it does concern me a great deal. > > Does anybody else have any numbers they'd like to share? % gzcat * | wc 13133659 236790086 2910981757 % gzcat * | grep -c "HTTP/1.0" 6478695 or 49.32% This is one set of logs from one machine in our cluster for one month. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 11:43:36 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA20109 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:40:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA19660; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:38:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10777; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:38:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13ZEbx-0001hl-00; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:38:09 -0600 Message-ID: <39BF9F60.9F7074CF@hilander.com> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:38:08 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Horwath CC: Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com> <20000913103725.C4436@Geeks.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Mike Horwath wrote: > > % gzcat * | wc > 13133659 236790086 2910981757 > % gzcat * | grep -c "HTTP/1.0" > 6478695 > > or 49.32% > > This is one set of logs from one machine in our cluster for one month. It appears that looking at the browser version itself would be far more revealing... Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 11:43:44 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA20173 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:40:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA20159; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:40:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA12293; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:40:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id E5C1B3DBF; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:40:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:40:16 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mike Horwath , Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913104016.D4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BD94F7.DD143DBE@hilander.com> <20000912083604.E93972@Geeks.ORG> <39BE43D6.CE7FB798@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39BE43D6.CE7FB798@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:55:18AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:55:18AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Mike Horwath wrote: > > > > Thing is, 'tomorrows way of web hosting' really is tomorrow. > > > > Or don't you get it? > > I don't think I do, since I'm not sure what you're getting at. There was no 'ramp up' period, this policy takes effect *now*. > > But why not put all dialups behind NAT, I mean, hell, fuck'em, they > > don't need to play games on the 'net, do Netmeeting, ICQ and such, and > > this would save me a couple thousand IPs and would save UUNET (and > > other big boys) /14s and more of IP space. > > Your sarcasm notwithstanding, I think the issues of placing dialup > (or any end-users for that matter) behind a NAT out-number the > issues of using name-based virtual hosting for entry-level web > accounts. Ah, now it is entry level web accounts. We already put entry level web accounts online via named virtual hosts, the thing is, we don't do all that many of those, we do much larger items. Of course, the difinition of 'entry-level web accounts' could be debated and probably will be. > > Yep, it isn't new and many of us use name based virtual hosting > > techniques when we can. > > > > Thing is, it doesn't work all the time. > > I agree with you 100% on that count. > > And I think the ARIN policy should be re-worded so that it is more > flexible. Ah, some agreement, kick ass! > See, the IP 'waste' that the membership was specifically concerned > about when crafting this policy is the mom-and-pop shops that only > get a few thousand hits per month and don't use SSL for their site. > There are tens of thousands of those sites out there now (probably > more) and there is no reason in the world why they shouldn't be on > name-based virtual hosts. I agree! > Then, there are some sites that are so huge that for a variety of > reasons it is just unfeasible to put them on name-based virtual > hosts. I think the policy should be re-crafted to objectively > define that in some way. Going to be difficult to be objective, though. Very difficult. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 11:45:50 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA20452 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:42:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA20448 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:42:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13939 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:42:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id C79993DBF; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:42:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:42:22 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mike Horwath , Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913104222.E4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BD69B2.A7615A77@hilander.com> <20000912083205.D93972@Geeks.ORG> <39BE4454.EEB897A5@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39BE4454.EEB897A5@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:57:24AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:57:24AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Mike Horwath wrote: > > > > Same here. > > > > Where we could get away with header parsing, we have. > > > > Where we can not, we must use an IP, and if we need to, we will put up > > a bunch of other shit as well since 99.9% of the customers we do web > > hosting for also get all of their email from us, we can just run > > virtual servers for them for their mail on their 'dedicated IP'. No > > biggie, the mail cluster is going in behind loadbalancers with the web > > boxes, this will be easy. > > And I think that's a great setup. > > Just out of curiosity, would you mind sharing how large a website > you can put on a name-based virtual host before you have to move it > elsewhere? That is a good question. We don't allow sites larger than 100MB/month transferred onto the smaller systems. > Also, for e-mail, have you tried giving users longer POP usernames? > (like user@domain.com?) I know it isn't a perfect solution, but > I've seen lots of places doing that and it seems to work perfectly > well. I do seem to recall some older versions of Eudora over-load > the @ operator as a delimiter, but I think they've fixed that... The new cluster will do this, the old system does not. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 11:47:52 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA20824 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:44:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA20762; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:44:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from staff.dca.net (staff.dca.net [207.245.82.23]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15997; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:43:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (awhite@localhost) by staff.dca.net (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA22547; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:41:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: staff.dca.net: awhite owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:41:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew White To: arin-discuss@arin.net cc: Mike Horwath , "Alec H. Peterson" , Mury , Matt Bailey , ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <20000913090937.A4436@Geeks.ORG> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR I have to agree with Mike Horwath. We are looking at what's required to move from IP- to name-based virtual hosts, and we find that name-based virtual hosts are really a different product than IP based virtual hosts -- and along with name-based vhosts comes a whole host of headaches for us (log processing/IP accounting) and our customers (incompatability with older browsers). I hope that ARIN reconsiders this policy. -Andrew White DCANet On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Mike Horwath wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:50:05AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > > Speaking to your request for a solution to your accounting woes, I really > > don't think you want that from ARIN. See, if that happens then people will > > start screaming about how ARIN dictates the way people must do business, > > which gets into another rat-hole that we really don't want to go down. > > There are many ways to skin this cat. > > But with this policy, ARIN is now dictating business. > > :) > > -- Andrew White DCANet / Consult Dynamics, Inc. ------------------------------- Philadelphia: 215-440-1500 x160 Wilmington: 302-654-1019 x111 Facsimile: 215-440-1505 From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 11:50:02 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA21132 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:46:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA20858; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:44:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA16356; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:44:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13ZEff-0001iY-00; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:41:59 -0600 Message-ID: <39BFA047.F0158984@hilander.com> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:41:59 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Horwath CC: Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification References: <39BD94F7.DD143DBE@hilander.com> <20000912083604.E93972@Geeks.ORG> <39BE43D6.CE7FB798@hilander.com> <20000913104016.D4436@Geeks.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Mike Horwath wrote: > > There was no 'ramp up' period, this policy takes effect *now*. Ahh, now I do get it. As I think I said in a previous e-mail that's a valid beef (IMO of course). > > Ah, now it is entry level web accounts. > > We already put entry level web accounts online via named virtual > hosts, the thing is, we don't do all that many of those, we do much > larger items. > > Of course, the difinition of 'entry-level web accounts' could be > debated and probably will be. Absolutely. > > Going to be difficult to be objective, though. > > Very difficult. Yeah well, if it were going to be easy then we wouldn't have to bother with all of these fun discussions ;-) Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 11:50:40 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA21274 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA21249; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:47:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17673; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:47:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 874383DBF; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:47:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:47:11 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: Jon Rust Cc: Mury , "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913104711.G4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BD94F7.DD143DBE@hilander.com> <20000912080838.A32704@mail.vcnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000912080838.A32704@mail.vcnet.com>; from hostmaster@vcnet.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:08:38AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:08:38AM -0700, Jon Rust wrote: > You're bending the truth here, quite a bit actually. The HTTP 1.0 proto > may not support the Host: header, but browsers that are using HTTP 1.0 > may very well support he Host: header. Oh, i don't know, a smallish > browser called Netscape, v 2.0 or better, comes to mind. Grepping > through my access log for today I see over 65,000 1.0 requests. 98% of > those are to name-based virtual hosts (which is almost all i run > anymore), and they all worked. That is an excellent point. One that isn't lost upon any of us I don't think. But my counter would be: If you have a site doing 1/4 million hits a day via named virtual hosts, and it takes .01 of a second...that is 2500 seconds of CPU. Now, match that up with 10 more sites on the same cluster of that caliber plus add in a couple more thousand sites of varying size. Ouch. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 12:08:54 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA23867 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:03:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA23855; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:03:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00363; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:03:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id A64983DC1; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:03:31 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:03:31 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913110331.J4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BE7EE7.F067161@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39BE7EE7.F067161@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:07:19PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:07:19PM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Mury wrote: > > Instead of putting the clamps on the ISPs why not focus on: > > > > 1) Reclaiming unused IP space to hold us out a little longer > > That's already being done, but there's a big problem. ARIN doesn't > have authority over the major offenders (legacy /8s and /16s). The > AC has had long, involved discussions about how is best to do this, > and we're working on it. For example, our first goal is to re-claim > address space of companies that have gone out of business. If you > have some ideas on how we can do this we'd _love_ to hear them. Push the guidelines. Give them a warning explaining that their usage doesn't fit guidelines (which we have all lived by for a long time), give'em time to fix it, then yank the space if they don't do anything. Like I said, I have customers with decent sized blocks assigned but they don't use'em all by any means. I am sure I am not alone. > > I'm not bitching just to bitch. I'm looking out for my ecommerce > > customers. 90% of my revenue comes from businesses. If I don't watch out > > for their bottom line, they sure the hell aren't going to look out for > > mine. If I switch them to a name-based system, before the world is ready > > for it and they lose hits do to software incompatibilites, or don't notice > > that their traffic died, or they can't see how effective a commercial was > > by using real-time accounting stats, or one of my customers gets DOSed and > > I can't control the traffic at my core routers or at my upstream so I have > > to take everyone down because they all share an IP, they are going to host > > with someone who cheats the system and gets them an IP. > > Those are legitimate gripes. > > Can we come up with reasonable solutions to them? I am hoping so. > And as far as being labled a trouble-maker, I know plenty of people > who have been far more vocal about ARIN policy than you and have had > no problem getting address space. Please don't spread the > mis-conception that ARIN is anything other than an objective > organization. It isn't true and it makes everyone's life much more > difficult in getting support for the organization. I'll save this email :) > > 2) Do real time web accounting. Remember we buy bandwidth by the Mbit, so > > we need to sell it by the Mbit > > Doing bandwidth (as opposed to bytes transfered per period of time) > billing is tough, although it sounds like more and more vendors are > starting to sell equipment that handles this. Perhaps. But from what I have seen of the Alteon and Foundry systems, you can't get statistics on the VIP in a fasion that works for bandwidth billing (and I would *love* to be corrected). By doing it via multiple IPs...we can. > > 3) Provide controls against DOS attacks. No we don't host porn sites > > But those are the money-makers! :-) > > Seriously, I understand the DOS issue all too well, and it does need > to be addressed. Not sure how to at this point, except to say that > this policy is really targeted towards the bottom-of-the-line web > hosting accounts. If you have a customer who has a lot of traffic, > pays you a lot of money and can't afford to be off the air then it > makes perfect sense to have him on a dedicated IP (I think at > least). But who decides where that line will be drawn? > Perhaps that's a bad analogy, but my point is that ARIN recognizes > ISPs have made great strides in conserving IP space. However, as > more and more companies and users hook up to the 'net every month, > we need to do as much as we can. Reclaim!!!! > > Almost all my account are $50/month. Is this considered cheap? Do you > > have to be a IBM selling $2500 accounts to gain the exception? Or, are > > the $19.95 joints where the cutoff would be drawn? Just curious. > > That's a very good question, I'm not sure what the answer is. I agree. > > Alec, I understand your and ARIN's points. However if a "policy" is going > > to be created and enforced I think we some of these issues need to be > > better addressed and defined so legit ISPs don't have to wait over a > > month to get new IP space and go through a process of defending web > > hosting IP space. > > Which is why we really need more participation. Fortunately this > policy change has brought more of it forward, but as I said above we > need a better way to tally opinions in a fair manner... Well, at least we are now participating, at least that is something positive. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 12:12:46 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA24397 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:07:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA24237; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:07:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29264; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:06:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 452F93DBF; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:05:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:05:21 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "David W. Hankins" Cc: Mike Horwath , "Alec H. Peterson" , Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913110521.K4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BD94F7.DD143DBE@hilander.com> <20000912083604.E93972@Geeks.ORG> <20000912135712.F5296@mfnx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000912135712.F5296@mfnx.net>; from dhankins@mfnx.net on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:57:12PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:57:12PM -0700, David W. Hankins wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:36:04AM -0500, Mike Horwath wrote: > > Well, up his numbers by a full factor and you will see it is again not > > feasible. > > Any well designed system would be O(n) where n=number of named-vhosts. > > Presumably, you already use a linear scaling function sourced in the > number of customers you have. I think you didn't read my whole message... > > And requires even more hacking and more CPU power to manage, continue. > > Apache already has a log module that permits user definable format. > > It can be easily modifed to operate as Alec suggests without the negative > impacts you fortell. Already modded but we need more data than what Alec suggested. > > But why not put all dialups behind NAT, I mean, hell, fuck'em, they > > don't need to play games on the 'net, do Netmeeting, ICQ and such, and > > this would save me a couple thousand IPs and would save UUNET (and > > other big boys) /14s and more of IP space. > > No, that would be clearly wrong. > > But on the other hand, dynamic addressing on dialup isn't. So...we should create dynamic addressing for virtual hosting? -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 12:25:48 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA25869 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:21:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA25845 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:21:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07454 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:21:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 745523DBF; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:21:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:21:21 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "David W. Hankins" Cc: Mike Horwath , Dean Waters , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913112121.L4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <20000911175940.A89979@Geeks.ORG> <02fe01c01c51$6fa22580$e421340a@mgc.com> <20000912082747.C93972@Geeks.ORG> <20000912141617.G5296@mfnx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000912141617.G5296@mfnx.net>; from dhankins@mfnx.net on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:16:17PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:16:17PM -0700, David W. Hankins wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:27:47AM -0500, Mike Horwath wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:35:59PM -0700, Dean Waters wrote: > > > Why not get your bandwidth numbers from your access logs? > > Because that counts bytes transferred. > > Isn't the amount of overhead in protocol and tcp congestion control > over some large aggregation interval linearly related to the number > of bytes transferred? Some percent? > > This suggests you would want to charge a proportionally higher price > for a measurement that results in smaller numbers. > > Unless what you are suggesting is that you still want to be able to > charge your customers for any intervals during which your network > access is decreased due to DOS attacks flung against them. Nope. We graph our customers usage of their T1s, colocation, DS3s, and virtual web hosting and we charge for their usage based on a formula that is on our web site. (we don't charge for the top 95th but we also don't charge for average utilization either) We do this because we need to charge people for their usage and number of bytes transferred a month doesn't count right. ie: 64Kbps 24x7 for 30 days i 20,736,000,000 bytes in a month. If a customer of ours sustained 64Kbps 24x7x365 I would not care as that isn't much bandwidth. But many sites don't do all that much and then spike (like any business site!), we need to charge for bandwidth over a certain level (we chose 64Kbps :) to cover usage for these 'peak' periods since we need to always have bandwidth for the peak usage of *all* of our customers. Make sense? > > Tell me how easy it would be to write code to take the access logs and > > correlate to bandwidth used over a month, then tell me what it would > > take to produce this data (which is required for billing) so that it > > looks like MRTG (so our customers can see their utilization), and can > > do it for 1500 web sites at over 8GB a day of logs, and be done doing > > that in a reasonable time (like the same day, or better yet, real > > time). > > Trivial. Really? > I should think any system that can not do it for 30,000 high volume > web sites on reasonably modern hardware is improperly designed. Really? A challenge to yourself to write? -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 12:27:42 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA26085 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:24:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA26068; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:24:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08729; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:23:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 077363DBF; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:23:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:23:47 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mike Horwath , Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net, arin-members@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913112347.M4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com> <20000913091532.B4436@Geeks.ORG> <39BF903F.5A62457A@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39BF903F.5A62457A@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:33:35AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:33:35AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Here's what I'm going to do. Anybody who wants to see the policy > changed in some SPECIFIC way AND is not going to make it to the > meeting in Herndon send e-mail directly to me (ahp@hilander.com) > with the subject ARIN WEB HOSTING. Please only put your suggestions > for how to fix what you don't like about the policy in there, with > some reasoning behind it so that I can pass that long to the > membership at large at the meeting. Very generous, thank you. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 12:27:51 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA26100 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:24:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA26088; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:24:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16992; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:24:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 7C11A3DBF; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:24:23 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:24:23 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mike Horwath , Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913112423.N4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com> <20000913103725.C4436@Geeks.ORG> <39BF9F60.9F7074CF@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39BF9F60.9F7074CF@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:38:08AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:38:08AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Mike Horwath wrote: > > > > % gzcat * | wc > > 13133659 236790086 2910981757 > > % gzcat * | grep -c "HTTP/1.0" > > 6478695 > > > > or 49.32% > > > > This is one set of logs from one machine in our cluster for one month. > > It appears that looking at the browser version itself would be far more > revealing... Already working on correlating that data :) -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 12:30:44 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA26390 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:27:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA26379 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:27:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fainting-goat.internal.enteract.com (root@fainting-goat.internal.enteract.com [216.80.78.55]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19229 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:27:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (kjs@localhost) by fainting-goat.internal.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA56581 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:28:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kjs@enteract.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fainting-goat.internal.enteract.com: kjs owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:28:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Kim Scarborough X-Sender: kjs@fainting-goat.internal.enteract.com To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR I sent this yesterday, but it never went through. I'll try again. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:08:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Kim Scarborough To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification > Cool! Now we all know how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what > about all those HTTP/1.0 browsers!? You don't think they exist any > more? Check this out. In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of > one server from a selective time period. All my logs files are in the > www.domain.com format. Here are my commands and results: > > webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l > 400441 > webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l > 375412 > > 48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my customers' sites used > HTTP/1.0. For the uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does > NOT support name based hosting. > > Can I tell all my customers to call you when their online business drops > by almost 50%. Wait a minute. When you posted that, I was really surprised. I looked through my server logs and got similar percentages. Look at this: /weblogs> grep 'HTTP/1.1' access.log |wc -l 485 /weblogs> grep 'HTTP/1.0' access.log |wc -l 449 But guess what. That's a name-based site. It shares an IP with several sites I host. So obviously, that's not an accurate way to check if people will load the site--nearly half of this site's hits are from 1.0 requests, and yet it manages to get the site fine. I'm not sure how this works--perhaps the browsers are misidentifying the request?--but I can assure you, it does. I work for an ISP that has hundreds of name-based sites. We haven't got any complaints from any of our customers about *anybody* not being able to load their sites in over a year. Saying that 50% of the people out there can't view name-based sites is just absurd. In fact, let's dig a little deeper. Netscape 2.0 and above and IE 3 and above support name-based hosts. So, since IE 3 reports itself as Mozilla 2, IE 4 reports itself as Mozilla 3, etc., let's try this (on my main, IP-based site this time): /weblogs> egrep \(Mozilla/5\|Mozilla/4\|Mozilla/3\|Mozilla/2\) combined.log |wc -l 74210 /weblogs> egrep -v \(Mozilla/5\|Mozilla/4\|Mozilla/3\|Mozilla/2\) combined.log |wc -l 6456 So now we're down to 8%. But even that overstates the number of browsers that can't view name-based sites, because the second number includes search bots, less-used browsers like Lynx and Opera, and command-line fetchers like fetch and wget--all of which also support name-based hosts. I can prune it further upon request. But I would guess it's a fair assumption that just about the only browsers in use by almost anybody that can't get to name-based sites are stray copies of Netscape 1.x. So let's look for that: /weblogs> grep Mozilla/1 combined.log | wc -l 79 0.1% of all my hits this month. So while y'all have a point about the bandwidth accounting, you're on pretty thin ice when talking about browser incompatability. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 12:32:57 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA26924 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:29:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA26898; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:29:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA20813; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:29:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 207C63DBF; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:29:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:29:21 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Jorg B." Cc: Mike Horwath , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913112921.O4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com> <39BE429D.BF3CF8B4@hilander.com> <20000913091532.B4436@Geeks.ORG> <4.2.2.20000913090702.00bf9640@mail.newmodels.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000913090702.00bf9640@mail.newmodels.com>; from jorg_b@cwo.com on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:14:31AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:14:31AM -0700, Jorg B. wrote: > I totally agree with Mike's e-mail.... Let's take a look at all the Schools > and ask for justification why they don't implement NAT to connect their > classrooms to the net. The same applies to some Government > Organizations.... Not to long ago we talked to a Organization that was > assigned a Class B in the old days and now they use less than one /24 of > that Class B but haven't turned any unused space back to ARIN. > Lets get this under control first before telling ISP's to completely > reorganize their business. WHOOP! UofMn - a ton of IP space...for a total of 60K students in the metro area, and only about another 30K students in the affiliate schools. Yet, if I remember right, they have something like 5 /16s and are getting more address space. wowzers Let's go look... * i128.101.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i131.212.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i134.84.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i146.57.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i160.94.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i192.102.236.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i198.174.65.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i198.174.66.0/23 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i198.174.67.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i198.174.68.0/22 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i198.174.72.0/21 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i198.174.80.0/20 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i204.220.39.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i Eeek. Maybe, just maybe, 100K students total. (don't get me wrong, I like the UofM just fine, but this is an example of things that need to be fixed...) -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 13:25:50 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA05080 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:19:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA05068 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:19:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.journey.com (postfix@smtp-temp.michix.net [207.241.134.28]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA29571 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:19:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by smtp.journey.com (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 17A4D12C83F; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:19:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.journey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A1DFD942D; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:19:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:19:42 -0400 (EDT) From: mbailey X-Sender: mbailey@smtp.journey.com To: Mike Horwath Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <20000913112921.O4436@Geeks.ORG> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR If you are referring to University of Michigan. They would actually be using those IP's they have Thousands of Dialups in the State. I would assume they are one in the Same as Merit... I can tell you look at their modems just once that floor to ceiling PM3's on 25 racks.. That was just for the Flint area of michigan.. They have more of those all over.. Here in the town I am at they have 1000 modems. If they are not part of the Merit Pool then UofM does NOT need them if they are partly merits then they do.. However of all the areas that will eventually grow into their space the schools are the ones.. Corp entities are moving the oposite way with NAT and Firewalls.. On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Mike Horwath wrote: > owner-arin-discuss@arin.net > Precedence: bulk > Status: O > X-Status: > X-Keywords: > X-UID: 18769 > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:14:31AM -0700, Jorg B. wrote: > > I totally agree with Mike's e-mail.... Let's take a look at all the Schools > > and ask for justification why they don't implement NAT to connect their > > classrooms to the net. The same applies to some Government > > Organizations.... Not to long ago we talked to a Organization that was > > assigned a Class B in the old days and now they use less than one /24 of > > that Class B but haven't turned any unused space back to ARIN. > > Lets get this under control first before telling ISP's to completely > > reorganize their business. > > WHOOP! > > UofMn - a ton of IP space...for a total of 60K students in the metro > area, and only about another 30K students in the affiliate schools. > > Yet, if I remember right, they have something like 5 /16s and are > getting more address space. > > wowzers > > Let's go look... > > * i128.101.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i131.212.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i134.84.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i146.57.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i160.94.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i192.102.236.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i198.174.65.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i198.174.66.0/23 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i198.174.67.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i198.174.68.0/22 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i198.174.72.0/21 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i198.174.80.0/20 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > * i204.220.39.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > Eeek. > > Maybe, just maybe, 100K students total. > > (don't get me wrong, I like the UofM just fine, but this is an example > of things that need to be fixed...) > > -- > Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG > Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 > Opinions stated in this message From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 15:12:14 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA16742 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:06:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA16738; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:06:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA21786; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:06:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07883; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:54:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:01:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: "David W. Hankins" cc: Mike Horwath , "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <20000913113916.B6026@mfnx.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > > I think you didn't read my whole message... > > You are in error. Looks like he didn't communicate his message well, or you didn't take the time to read it well. > > So...we should create dynamic addressing for virtual hosting? > > No, due to HTTP design that would be unworkable. Browsers would cache, > without using proper DNS caching semantics, ip addresses associated with > domain names wether or not that address is still 'in use' by the same > vhost. > > And besides, it would be far too complex, meaning it would introduce > instability. That's exactly his point, don't they use sarcasm in your part of the world? Since it looks like it has to be spelled out. He was making the point that you can't compare requiring dialup providers to use dynamic IPs to this policy of requiring hosting companies to do named based hosting. It is not comparing apples to apples. Using dynamic IPs for dialup users had very very little downside. It is a very legitimate, aggreable way to conserve IP space. And most of us readily used dynamic IPs for our dialup customers. Hell, I'm sure for most of us it was technologically possible before we even started our businesses. Named based hosting is not even close a being a similar situation. It's just plain stupid to go around spouting that name based hosting is as easy to accomplish (full scale) as it is to give a dialup user a dynamic IP or have lots of your users use NAT. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 15:15:36 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA17455 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:12:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA17424 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:11:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA12841 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:11:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01997; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:01:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:08:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: mbailey cc: Mike Horwath , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR I'm pretty sure he meant the University of Minnesota. On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, mbailey wrote: > If you are referring to University of Michigan. They would actually be > using those IP's they have Thousands of Dialups in the State. I would > assume they are one in the Same as Merit... > > I can tell you look at their modems just once that floor to ceiling PM3's > on 25 racks.. That was just for the Flint area of michigan.. They have > more of those all over.. Here in the town I am at they have 1000 modems. > > If they are not part of the Merit Pool then UofM does NOT need them if > they are partly merits then they do.. However of all the areas that will > eventually grow into their space the schools are the ones.. Corp entities > are moving the oposite way with NAT and Firewalls.. > > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Mike Horwath wrote: > > > owner-arin-discuss@arin.net > > Precedence: bulk > > Status: O > > X-Status: > > X-Keywords: > > X-UID: 18769 > > > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:14:31AM -0700, Jorg B. wrote: > > > I totally agree with Mike's e-mail.... Let's take a look at all the Schools > > > and ask for justification why they don't implement NAT to connect their > > > classrooms to the net. The same applies to some Government > > > Organizations.... Not to long ago we talked to a Organization that was > > > assigned a Class B in the old days and now they use less than one /24 of > > > that Class B but haven't turned any unused space back to ARIN. > > > Lets get this under control first before telling ISP's to completely > > > reorganize their business. > > > > WHOOP! > > > > UofMn - a ton of IP space...for a total of 60K students in the metro > > area, and only about another 30K students in the affiliate schools. > > > > Yet, if I remember right, they have something like 5 /16s and are > > getting more address space. > > > > wowzers > > > > Let's go look... > > > > * i128.101.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i131.212.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i134.84.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i146.57.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i160.94.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i192.102.236.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i198.174.65.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i198.174.66.0/23 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i198.174.67.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i198.174.68.0/22 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i198.174.72.0/21 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i198.174.80.0/20 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > * i204.220.39.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i > > > > Eeek. > > > > Maybe, just maybe, 100K students total. > > > > (don't get me wrong, I like the UofM just fine, but this is an example > > of things that need to be fixed...) > > > > -- > > Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG > > Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 > > Opinions stated in this message > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 16:07:46 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA23694 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:05:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA23689; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:05:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA13474; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:05:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA13026; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:57:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:04:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: "David W. Hankins" cc: Mike Horwath , "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <20000913121748.G6026@mfnx.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > > It's just plain stupid to go around spouting that name based hosting is as > > easy to accomplish (full scale) as it is to give a dialup user a dynamic > > IP or have lots of your users use NAT. > > I have to admit, that the metaphor does hold in my view if you are speaking > in terms of difficulty. The only difference in difficulty I see is in > introducing billing mechanisms that are obviously vacant in the case of > dial access systems. What about all the other issues people have raised? QOS, black-holed IPs, HTTP/1.0 (which seems to be minimal, but from more digging on my own it could be as high as 5%), real-time web performance monitoring, SSL (supposedly and exemption, but not stated any where, and from some posts, not being taken seriously), databases that communicate by IP address (don't ask me), etc. BTW, billing mechanisms are not obviously vacant in dial access systems. Dial access is loaded with different forms of monitoring and billing. Mury From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 18:00:50 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA04537 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:57:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA04522; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:57:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.fullport.com (gandalf.fullport.com [63.68.194.2]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04394; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:57:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from waldo.fullport.com [63.105.108.15] by smtp.fullport.com (SMTPD32-5.08) id A7691B740130; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:53:45 -0400 Message-ID: <001801c01dcb$92817c60$0f6c693f@fullport.com> From: "PSchroebel" To: "Mury" , "David W. Hankins" Cc: "Mike Horwath" , "Alec H. Peterson" , "Matt Bailey" , , References: Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:42:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Lets Not get the NAT's in the www servers....please. What if? We look at this for a moment use the : NIC Mac's for the allocation of IP numbers where SSL's and apps require IP space. Here a machine that can handle numerous NIC could use multiple IP's and be quite useful and it does work well. There is a trick to making NT work with multi NIC's but it works. If you are hosting with merchants that require SSL's you co-locate them and rack them up or put them on the multi-nic machines. Free webhosting with IP's must go but that's my opinion any how. Free virtual hosting is just fine! We have limited resources IP wise and IPV6 is not there yet.. and who knows where we will be in a year or so. Remember that the NAT saved us from the last IP crunch. Just a thought.. :) Peter Schroebel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mury" To: "David W. Hankins" Cc: "Mike Horwath" ; "Alec H. Peterson" ; "Matt Bailey" ; ; Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 4:04 PM Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification > > It's just plain stupid to go around spouting that name based hosting is as > > easy to accomplish (full scale) as it is to give a dialup user a dynamic > > IP or have lots of your users use NAT. > > I have to admit, that the metaphor does hold in my view if you are speaking > in terms of difficulty. The only difference in difficulty I see is in > introducing billing mechanisms that are obviously vacant in the case of > dial access systems. What about all the other issues people have raised? QOS, black-holed IPs, HTTP/1.0 (which seems to be minimal, but from more digging on my own it could be as high as 5%), real-time web performance monitoring, SSL (supposedly and exemption, but not stated any where, and from some posts, not being taken seriously), databases that communicate by IP address (don't ask me), etc. BTW, billing mechanisms are not obviously vacant in dial access systems. Dial access is loaded with different forms of monitoring and billing. Mury From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 18:00:56 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA04562 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:58:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA04558; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:58:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04828; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:58:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA30455; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:50:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:57:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: "David W. Hankins" cc: Mike Horwath , "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification In-Reply-To: <20000913135417.A6654@mfnx.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR It sure seems like I'm talking to a brick wall, David. How much business web hosting do you do? Mury On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, David W. Hankins wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:04:42PM -0500, Mury wrote: > > What about all the other issues people have raised? QOS, black-holed IPs, > > HTTP/1.0 (which seems to be minimal, but from more digging on my own it > > could be as high as 5%), real-time web performance monitoring, SSL > > (supposedly and exemption, but not stated any where, and from some posts, > > not being taken seriously), databases that communicate by IP address > > (don't ask me), etc. > > I said it was 'as difficult', not 'dial access is the same as hosting.' > > I see nothing in your list that is not similarly present in dial access, > excepting that people have developed mechanisms to deal with them, or > have embraced alternatives. > > > BTW, billing mechanisms are not obviously vacant in dial access > > systems. Dial access is loaded with different forms of monitoring and > > billing. > > Generally, one does not bill dial access hosts by 95th percentile burst > activity. > > Exceptions are so small in number that it is not useful for a body like > ARIN to be concerned about them. > > So, their presence is still comparatively vacant to the needs of web > hosting, and makes transition more difficult. > > -- > David W. Hankins "If you don't do it right the first time, > Toolmaker you'll just have to do it again." > Blunt-Rocks and Scripts -- Jack T. Hankins > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 18:03:04 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA04901 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:01:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA04897 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:01:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA07310 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:01:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id E9C783DC1; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:01:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:01:16 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: mbailey Cc: Mike Horwath , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Message-ID: <20000913170116.A11328@Geeks.ORG> References: <20000913112921.O4436@Geeks.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mbailey@journey.net on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:19:42PM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:19:42PM -0400, mbailey wrote: > If you are referring to University of Michigan. They would actually be > using those IP's they have Thousands of Dialups in the State. I would > assume they are one in the Same as Merit... I didn't realize that UofMn is Michigan. :) -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 13 20:19:11 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA09984 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:16:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA09980; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:16:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from po2.bbn.com (PO2.BBN.COM [192.1.50.36]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA02740; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:16:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smarcus (dc101.bbn.com [171.78.60.101]) by po2.bbn.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA08214; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:16:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000913201019.03fc4210@pobox3.genuity.com> X-Sender: smarcus@pobox3.genuity.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:10:19 -0400 To: Mike Horwath From: "J. Scott Marcus" Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net In-Reply-To: <20000913110331.J4436@Geeks.ORG> References: <39BE7EE7.F067161@hilander.com> <39BE7EE7.F067161@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR >> ... And as far as being labled a trouble-maker, I know plenty of people >> who have been far more vocal about ARIN policy than you and have had >> no problem getting address space. Please don't spread the >> mis-conception that ARIN is anything other than an objective >> organization. It isn't true and it makes everyone's life much more >> difficult in getting support for the organization. > >I'll save this email :) ... Please do. This ppml mailing list (and our public policy meetings) are exactly the right places to frankly and openly discuss issues like this. Moreover, we specifically solicited opinions from the community on these actions. ARIN _asked_ for this feedback. I personally prefer that the discussions be polite, civil, and in a tone of mutual respect, which has I think mostly been the case with this long thread. With that said, it is VERY important that people feel free to express their opinions candidly and directly. ARIN does not (and must not) penalize people for expressing their opinions. Cheers, -- Scott Marcus (who is a Trustee of ARIN, but speaking for himself here) From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 03:15:15 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id DAA24679 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 03:12:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id DAA24659; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 03:12:03 -0400 (EDT) From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Received: from vacation.karoshi.com (vacation.karoshi.com [198.32.4.20]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA21292; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 03:12:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmanning@localhost) by vacation.karoshi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA25535; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:21:35 GMT Message-Id: <200009140721.HAA25535@vacation.karoshi.com> Subject: Re: consistancy To: drechsau@geeks.org (Mike Horwath) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:21:34 +0000 (UCT) Cc: ahp@hilander.com (Alec H. Peterson), mury@goldengate.net (Mury), mbailey@journey.net (Matt Bailey), arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net In-Reply-To: <20000913091532.B4436@Geeks.ORG> from "Mike Horwath" at Sep 13, 2000 09:15:32 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > The points are: > > there are a ton of IPs available on the 'net that are > allocated and underused - relaim those and these worries about > IP depletion can be put off for another couple of years. > > random people with random comments about how my business is > supposed to be run is just not nice. > > -- > Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG > Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 These two statements are inconsistant. "reclaiming" space may affect the business of the parties that have been delegated space. To quote Mike Horwath; "...is just not nice..." --bill From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 08:40:47 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id IAA21192 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:38:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA21186 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:38:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gold.dbscom.com (IDENT:root@gold.dbscom.com [216.21.168.2]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA14956 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:37:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dbs.hom.net (silver.dbscom.com [216.21.168.3]) by gold.dbscom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8ECbnF03121 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:37:50 -0400 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914083739.00aedcf8@mail.ntrnet.net> X-Sender: dbs@pop.hom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:37:48 -0400 To: arin-discuss@arin.net From: Dave Stewart Subject: Correcting the mistake Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR I've been watching the debate here, and I'm not interested in rehashing what's already been said from both sides - I think browser compatibility is a non-issue, and I realize there are valid issues regarding bandwidth monitoring/billing. But those aren't my point - I've taken Alec up on his offer to present solutions to the meeting in Herndon - I won't be able to make it, so I passed these things on to him (and I appreciate his offer to present these for those who can't be there): 1) Retract the policy regarding justification based on IP-based virtual hosts. Re-announce the policy, with an effective date 90 or 120 days later. Personally, I'd be ok with 90 days, but some may not be, they may need a little more time to convert. 2) Future policy changes should be announced with effective dates *no sooner* than 90 days after announcement. 3) A summary of reasons for the policy change - in other words, have ARIN justify its policies to the membership, just as we must justify our requests for address space. Some you will certainly say that even 120 days isn't sufficient time. However, before you get out the flame thrower, take a couple of deep breaths, and think about this.... You don't have to have everything converted in 120 days - only if you're going to be applying for additional space after that. You would only need to have it converted before applying for another block. The truth is, if we all did IP-based only where we needed it (yes, I know that for some of your companies, *all* your domains are billed on traffic, etc, so you need it for all domains), we could each stretch our own allocations further. I know that as I convert those sites that don't absolutely have to have it, I'm going to be reclaiming a /24. It seems to me that if your business model is built around billing for bandwidth/utilization, that should be sufficient justification, as well. Certainly it's all a big PITA. Converting web sites takes time, reconfiguring things takes time - and none of us has enough time in a day/week/month/whatever to get done with with what we already have stacked up to do. Anyway - maybe my suggestions will be seen favorably by a majority - maybe not. I simply advance them for consideration. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 10:05:52 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA03254 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:01:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA03237; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA11605; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:01:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 8E1F03DC1; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:01:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:01:53 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Cc: Mike Horwath , "Alec H. Peterson" , Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000914090153.B18385@Geeks.ORG> References: <20000913091532.B4436@Geeks.ORG> <200009140721.HAA25535@vacation.karoshi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009140721.HAA25535@vacation.karoshi.com>; from bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:21:34AM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:21:34AM +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > > The points are: > > > > there are a ton of IPs available on the 'net that are > > allocated and underused - relaim those and these worries about > > IP depletion can be put off for another couple of years. > > > > random people with random comments about how my business is > > supposed to be run is just not nice. > > These two statements are inconsistant. "reclaiming" space > may affect the business of the parties that have been delegated > space. To quote Mike Horwath; "...is just not nice..." The issue we are discussing, the forced policy on named virtual hosting, has a basis of 'we are running out of IPs, here is another way to conserve'. I say cool, let's conserve *where we can*. In return I want ARIN to go to the people who were given allocations before the big IP scare of the mid nineties that should have never ever been given out and relaim said space to ease this issue of 'we are running out of IPs'. I have brought up one example of wasted IP space with detail. There is enough excess space within that one schools allocations to handle my ISP needs for 12-18 months (perhaps even longer!) *without* doing any IP reclamation myself via named based virtual hosting. Reclaim, Reuse, Recycle. Reclaim blocks whose allocations are woefully wrong. Reuse IPs as best as possible, like in the case of dynamic IPs for modems, DSL services, etc. Recycle - SWIP your damn blocks, be stingy with said blocks, execute fast turnaround on blocks as customers change. Also, give back what is now waste. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 10:30:07 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA07310 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:27:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA07306 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:27:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns.shawneelink.net (ns.shawneelink.net [216.240.66.11]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01049 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:27:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns.shawneelink.net (ns.shawneelink.net [216.240.66.11]) by ns.shawneelink.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8EERZ921003; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:27:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:27:35 -0500 (CDT) From: J Bacher X-Sender: jb@ns.shawneelink.net To: Dave Stewart cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: Correcting the mistake In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914083739.00aedcf8@mail.ntrnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > 1) Retract the policy regarding justification based on IP-based virtual > hosts. Re-announce the policy, with an effective date 90 or 120 days > later. Personally, I'd be ok with 90 days, but some may not be, they may > need a little more time to convert. With our without effective solutions to implement? > 3) A summary of reasons for the policy change - in other words, have ARIN > justify its policies to the membership, just as we must justify our > requests for address space. What justification process do you see being implemented that prioritizes one type of allocation [dial-up, dedicated] over another [webservers]? Non-bias and consistency in the application of IP address provisioning should be part of policy. >From the arguments that I've seen, pro and con this change, this appears to be no more than a band-aid to the real problem. Unless major web hosting companies migrate a large percentage of their respective IP addressed based webservers to virtuals, I can't see that, overall, we've saved much IP address space. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 10:38:17 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA08508 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:36:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA08446; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:35:56 -0400 (EDT) From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Received: from vacation.karoshi.com (vacation.karoshi.com [198.32.4.20]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA20629; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:35:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmanning@localhost) by vacation.karoshi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA25937; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:45:14 GMT Message-Id: <200009141445.OAA25937@vacation.karoshi.com> Subject: Re: consistancy To: drechsau@geeks.org (Mike Horwath) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:45:14 +0000 (UCT) Cc: drechsau@geeks.org (Mike Horwath), ahp@hilander.com (Alec H. Peterson), mury@goldengate.net (Mury), mbailey@journey.net (Matt Bailey), arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net In-Reply-To: <20000914090153.B18385@Geeks.ORG> from "Mike Horwath" at Sep 14, 2000 09:01:53 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > > These two statements are inconsistant. "reclaiming" space > > may affect the business of the parties that have been delegated > > space. To quote Mike Horwath; "...is just not nice..." > > I say cool, let's conserve *where we can*. In return I want ARIN to > go to the people who were given allocations before the big IP scare of > the mid nineties that should have never ever been given out and relaim > said space to ease this issue of 'we are running out of IPs'. > "... should have never ever been given out..." Hindsight is 20/20. These delegation predate CIDR and the addressing "scare" of the mid-90's. And several of the "egregious" delegations predate the existance of the A/B/C formats and the address "scare" of the mid-80's. You are correct in some things though. We must conserve where we can; e.g. manage the assets that each of us, individually, have been delegated. But it "... is just not nice..." to tell others how to manage their assets. Remember, the scarce resource is -NOT- the IP address, its the routing table slots that hold the prefixes. --bill From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 11:09:52 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA13268 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:06:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA13255; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:05:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00261; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:05:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id CBCD33DC1; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:05:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:05:56 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: Steven Green Cc: "'Mike Horwath'" , bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, "Alec H. Peterson" , Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000914100556.A19048@Geeks.ORG> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from steveng@is.co.za on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:40:09PM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:40:09PM +0200, Steven Green wrote: > And how do you suggest they go about reclaiming IP blocks. Call'em up, drop'em email. I bet that many will be very cordial and will return the space that is unused. Many will fight...and that is gonna suck for both parties. > What about IP blocks that have been broken up and delegated to > several clients. They can't(well it wouldn;t be practical of > them)to just all of a sudden reclaim the entire block due to a > "mistake" that was made 6 years ago?? The examples I have presented should not have this issue. They aren't ISPs wasting space... > Not gunning you down just don;t think that would be a very logical > way of doing things. Well, you just did try to shoot me down :) -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 11:43:46 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA19015 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:41:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA18994; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:41:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA27204; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:41:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 316853DC1; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:41:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:41:18 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Cc: Mike Horwath , "Alec H. Peterson" , Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000914104118.B19048@Geeks.ORG> References: <20000914090153.B18385@Geeks.ORG> <200009141445.OAA25937@vacation.karoshi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009141445.OAA25937@vacation.karoshi.com>; from bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:45:14PM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:45:14PM +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > > > These two statements are inconsistant. "reclaiming" space > > > may affect the business of the parties that have been delegated > > > space. To quote Mike Horwath; "...is just not nice..." > > > > I say cool, let's conserve *where we can*. In return I want ARIN to > > go to the people who were given allocations before the big IP scare of > > the mid nineties that should have never ever been given out and relaim > > said space to ease this issue of 'we are running out of IPs'. > > "... should have never ever been given out..." > Hindsight is 20/20. These delegation predate CIDR > and the addressing "scare" of the mid-90's. And > several of the "egregious" delegations predate the > existance of the A/B/C formats and the address "scare" > of the mid-80's. I agree that hindsight is 20/20 and I know about when these delegations were made. > You are correct in some things though. We must conserve > where we can; e.g. manage the assets that each of us, > individually, have been delegated. But it "... is just not > nice..." to tell others how to manage their assets. They are no longer assets. At one time it was a big deal to get addressing, now adays it is a fight. > Remember, the scarce resource is -NOT- the IP address, its > the routing table slots that hold the prefixes. Yep, I know. Can address space be 'given' to someone else yet? I am due for another allocation, I have a customer with a large block. Is it okay for me to trade them a /22 in return for their /16? -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 11:49:20 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA19824 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:47:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA19820 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:47:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.ntrnet.net (smtp.ntrnet.net [206.66.160.32]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02257 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:47:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dave.hom.net (dbs.ntrnet.net [208.241.155.83]) by smtp.ntrnet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4879E1F002; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:47:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914113555.00a17b80@pop.hom.net> X-Sender: dbs@pop.hom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:47:13 -0400 To: J Bacher From: Dave Stewart Subject: Re: Correcting the mistake Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net In-Reply-To: References: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914083739.00aedcf8@mail.ntrnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR At 09:27 AM 9/14/00 -0500, J Bacher wrote: > > 1) Retract the policy regarding justification based on IP-based virtual > > hosts. Re-announce the policy, with an effective date 90 or 120 days > > later. Personally, I'd be ok with 90 days, but some may not be, they may > > need a little more time to convert. > >With our without effective solutions to implement? I don't think it's ARIN's mission to be sure that effective solutions are implemented. If you insist that ARIN, or any oversight group, wait to make changes in any policy until someone else does something or another, it becomes a simple matter to stop the policy change - just don't create a solution. C'mon... we're all pretty bright folks. We can find an effective, efficient solution to these problems - if we're willing to try. Part of the solution, in my opinion, is to continue to allow justification based on IP-based virtual hosts. If that's your business model, how you've built an entire company or even part of a company, then in my mind, that justifies the allocation. Or, we can just let our fear of change rule our lives and our businesses. > > 3) A summary of reasons for the policy change - in other words, have ARIN > > justify its policies to the membership, just as we must justify our > > requests for address space. > >What justification process do you see being implemented that prioritizes >one type of allocation [dial-up, dedicated] over another >[webservers]? Non-bias and consistency in the application of IP address >provisioning should be part of policy. I don't mean to propose changes to justification for address space. I simply mean for ARIN to disclose to the membership, in a concise summary, the reasons behind a policy change. By this I don't mean something like "We're going to disallow justification based on IP-based virtual hosts because we need to conserve address space." I'm fairly sure most of you will agree that we'd like to see more of the thought process behind policy changes. Should web hosting take precedence over dialup users? Frankly, no. No one application should take priority over another. Basically, the policy should be that if you aren't wasting space - such as static IPs for every dialup customer - then you should get an allocation sufficient to cover your projected needs for the next year or so. > >From the arguments that I've seen, pro and con this change, this appears >to be no more than a band-aid to the real problem. Unless major web >hosting companies migrate a large percentage of their respective IP >addressed based webservers to virtuals, I can't see that, overall, we've >saved much IP address space. ARIN doesn't have the authority to put more than a band-aid on it. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 12:11:49 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA22569 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:09:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA22565 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:09:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns.shawneelink.net (ns.shawneelink.net [216.240.66.11]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19337 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:09:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jan (gate24.shawneelink.net [216.240.79.24]) by ns.shawneelink.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8EG9T922162; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:09:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000914111532.00ae2170@mail.jbacher.com> X-Sender: jb@mail.jbacher.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:16:44 -0500 To: Dave Stewart From: Jan Bacher Subject: Re: Correcting the mistake Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914113555.00a17b80@pop.hom.net> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914083739.00aedcf8@mail.ntrnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR At 11:47 AM 9/14/00 -0400, you wrote: >At 09:27 AM 9/14/00 -0500, J Bacher wrote: > >> > 1) Retract the policy regarding justification based on IP-based virtual >> > hosts. Re-announce the policy, with an effective date 90 or 120 days >> > later. Personally, I'd be ok with 90 days, but some may not be, they may >> > need a little more time to convert. >> >>With our without effective solutions to implement? > >I don't think it's ARIN's mission to be sure that effective solutions are >implemented. That's not what I said. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 12:36:07 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA24763 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:33:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA24759 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:33:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07836 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:33:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13644; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:26:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:33:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: Dave Stewart cc: J Bacher , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: Correcting the mistake In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914113555.00a17b80@pop.hom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > I don't think it's ARIN's mission to be sure that effective solutions are > implemented. If you insist that ARIN, or any oversight group, wait to make > changes in any policy until someone else does something or another, it > becomes a simple matter to stop the policy change - just don't create a > solution. > > C'mon... we're all pretty bright folks. We can find an effective, > efficient solution to these problems - if we're willing to try. Absolutely we can find a solution. Today? Next week? In an ideal world ARIN could institute a policy and we could all make it work tomorrow. It's just not reality. Some things are more difficult than others to make work. Maybe web based hosting is more difficult to technologically achieve than other things. What if ARIN said every organization gets 1 IP. Just 1. Even if you are an ISP. Even if you have customers. They only get 1. Of course we could all make this work. Every organization would have to get their *IP* from ARIN. Every organization would have to use NAT. Our routers would have to be magnitudes more powerful to handle the routing, but it could be done. Everything can be done, some things are more difficult than others. Some things we *can't* do today, even though we are close. I for one do not have the time, intelligence, or money to create the necessary hardware to make web based hosting work as IP based hosting does. This policy is premature. > Part of the solution, in my opinion, is to continue to allow justification > based on IP-based virtual hosts. If that's your business model, how you've > built an entire company or even part of a company, then in my mind, that > justifies the allocation. That would be great, if ARIN would spell that out in the policy. It cannot be left up for debate between ARIN staff and a person requesting space. > Or, we can just let our fear of change rule our lives and our businesses. I hate these comments. ISPs be nature are always changing or they wouldn't be ISPs. None of us got here by sitting on our asses. > I don't mean to propose changes to justification for address space. I > simply mean for ARIN to disclose to the membership, in a concise summary, > the reasons behind a policy change. > > By this I don't mean something like "We're going to disallow justification > based on IP-based virtual hosts because we need to conserve address space." > > I'm fairly sure most of you will agree that we'd like to see more of the > thought process behind policy changes. That sure sounds good ;) > ARIN doesn't have the authority to put more than a band-aid on it. Well, then the system is flawed. Instead of spending this precious time talking about one of ARIN policies, perhaps we should be figuring out how to find a real solution. Please, please someone say that IPv6 is the answer or some other form of technology is "on the way," because that is my whole point. Somethings are on the way, it can't be done over night, you can't tell one man that he should figure out the solution himself. Web based hosting is not ready to be mandated. Of course for the sake of the community every company who sells web hosting products that would run fine on web based hosting should do it. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 13:12:33 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA27622 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:09:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA27617 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:09:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.raha.com (mail.raha.com [196.41.32.2]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA16548 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:09:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from eyeball (ws041.startelecom.net [196.41.41.41]) by mail.raha.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 633-67771U5000L500S0V35) with SMTP id com for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:09:25 +0300 Reply-To: From: "Hostmaster" To: Subject: RE: Correcting the mistake Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:09:24 +0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914113555.00a17b80@pop.hom.net> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > ARIN doesn't have the authority to put more than a band-aid on it. Alright already, I've heard enough... I've sat on the sidelines watching the to-and-fro with interest, much of the same arguments going back and forth... it's like watching a tennis match. But this 'authority' stuff keeps rearing it's ugly head and I don't like the way it's heading... ARIN has the authority to affect MY business by telling me I must switch to virtual hosting if I want any more IPs. Forget about the costs - thousands of man-hours, new software, even new hardware, and changes involved in doing so. "Afraid of change"? Afraid of change for no valid reason, better damn well believe it. Out of 4.something BILLION addresses, everyone is up in arms about wastage by people not doing virtual hosting? Who on God's green earth has the 'authority' to decide that it's more wasteful than not switching all the dial-up to NAT? Or a host (no pun intended) of other areas where IP could be 'saved'. No, I digress. It's this sitting on the sidelines with hands raised bemoaning 'authority' that really pisses me off. ARIN think they have the "authority" to tell me IP which is actually BEING USED is being used inefficiently? For every bureaucrat who thinks this policy is sensible, I'll bet there are ten people living in the real world who will disagree... ARIN wants 'authority' - then TAKE authority. Grow some damn teeth instead of gumming your way through easy targets. No one else is going to do it, why can't ARIN take the initiative? You want people to hand back their unused /8's? STOP ROUTING the bloody things that'll get their attention. Who says we've not got the authority to do so? I'd drop their routes from my BGP in a heartbeat if everyone else agreed to do the same - what are they going to do, sue 'the world' it's up to ME what goes in and out of my network I don't need to accept their traffic! Get those damn woolen mitts off and get down to reclaiming some real wastage. IMHO, what pisses me off most is the 1000's of manhours, and MY FEES, wasted on 'policy' like this which could have been MUCH more productively spent. Yes, okay... I worked all night and I should know better than to sit and try to read mails... Regards Bob From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 13:44:12 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA02091 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:39:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA02075; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:38:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02734; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:38:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25440; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:30:52 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:38:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: Suzanne Woolf cc: Mike Horwath , bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, "Alec H. Peterson" , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: <200009141715.KAA16845@boreas.isi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Someone give me the list. I'll do my part and spend a day calling. If they don't cooperate the community should not have to take no for an answer. I would think in most people's mind it's far worse to have unused blocks, than to have not so effectiently used blocks. Mury On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Suzanne Woolf wrote: > > > > And how do you suggest they go about reclaiming IP blocks. > > > > Call'em up, drop'em email. > > Been there, done that. > > http://www.academ.com/nanog/feb1996/pier.ip.address.survey.html > (The slides are also available somewhere....) > > Interesting results include: > 1. Much of the contact data was simply unusable. > 2. The vast majority who did respond just said no. > > > I bet that many will be very cordial and will return the space that is > > unused. > > The folks who responded were mostly quite cordial, although a few > threatened to sue me for asking. Mostly, they were cordial about > saying "nope, we're keeping it." > > This was in 1996. I'm unconvinced the task would be easier now. > > > > > > Suzanne > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 13:53:09 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA03922 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:49:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA03914 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:49:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.ntrnet.net (smtp.ntrnet.net [206.66.160.32]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04621 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:49:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dave.hom.net (dbs.ntrnet.net [208.241.155.83]) by smtp.ntrnet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B065E1F019; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:49:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914134224.00a18a50@pop.hom.net> X-Sender: dbs@pop.hom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:49:28 -0400 To: Jan Bacher From: Dave Stewart Subject: Re: Correcting the mistake Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000914111532.00ae2170@mail.jbacher.com> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914113555.00a17b80@pop.hom.net> <5.0.0.25.2.20000914083739.00aedcf8@mail.ntrnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR At 11:16 AM 9/14/00 -0500, Jan Bacher wrote: >At 11:47 AM 9/14/00 -0400, you wrote: >>At 09:27 AM 9/14/00 -0500, J Bacher wrote: >> >>> > 1) Retract the policy regarding justification based on IP-based virtual >>> > hosts. Re-announce the policy, with an effective date 90 or 120 days >>> > later. Personally, I'd be ok with 90 days, but some may not be, >>> they may >>> > need a little more time to convert. >>> >>>With our without effective solutions to implement? >> >>I don't think it's ARIN's mission to be sure that effective solutions are >>implemented. > >That's not what I said. Then I misunderstood - my apologies. No matter what time frame is placed on it, there will come a time when the policy does take effect (that's taking the position that we can get them to retract it now). Will effective solutions be in place by then? I don't know. I'm not sure any of us could say when those solutions would be in place. We could suggest a one year wait - or two years. We still don't know what effective measures, if any, would be developed by then. My point really was that just creating a policy and making it effective immediately is bad for everyone. There needs to be time to look at all sides, most importantly the technical aspects of the change, whatever it may be. In some cases, technical solutions might be readily available. In others, perhaps the solutions would have to be developed. But I do think ARIN should announce the policy change - and give us all time to handle whatever changes would be necessary. In the case at hand now, perhaps 120 days is not enough. Maybe 180 is a more realistic goal. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 14:06:35 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA06654 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:02:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA06624; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:02:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from master1.yvr1.superb.net ([216.23.151.20]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16470; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:02:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riga-yvr1 (calliope.yvr1.superb.net [216.23.151.2]) by master1.yvr1.superb.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA04988; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009141800.LAA04988@master1.yvr1.superb.net> From: "Haralds Jass" Organization: Superb Internet Corp. http://www.superb.net To: arin-discuss@arin.net Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:11:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Reply-to: HJass@superb.net CC: ppml@arin.net Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR This doesn't seem to have went through yesterday, so I'll try to send it through again... ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Self To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Cc: ppml@arin.net Reply-to: HJass@SUPERB.NET Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:47:02 -0700 I have been following this thread quite closely and I'd like to throw in my comments, first arising from this thread specifically, and secondly about the bigger issue at stake here. It's been no surprise that those who don't really know web hosting agree with the policy completely and talk of trivial solutions to real problems and issues. Of course, it's always easier to talk than to actually do something (and isn't it those who talk and can't do that come up with hopelessly vague policies in the first place?). There have been a number of valid issues brought up to show the many needs for which there is no practical alternative to using unique IPs for virtual sites. I feel that this side has been discussed fairly and there have been no unbased needs put forth. Now then, going to the specifics, there's a number of things fundamentally wrong with the policy. It seems to be arising from the fact that no one at ARIN really knows web hosting. Before this policy was in effect, ARIN effectively had no notion of the existence of such a thing as web hosting. At least, that's the impression I got, as every person at ARIN would come up with totally different, inconsistent, requirements for address usage proof to allocate IPs - the rules were trivially made up on the spot. I know it's not just me, as even before the policy was created, I was asked by the organizers of the Web Host Expo (I'm on its board of advisors), regarding this issue and I was told that most other hosting companies feel the same way - that ARIN *should* develop some sort of clear policy for this, effectively "recognizing" web hosting as a valid need of IPs. Well, ARIN did indeed come up with a policy, however, one that shows total lack of understanding of what web hosting is and what IPs are needed for. Now, I'm a firm believer in effective IP address usage on a per-need basis, only. We have always, since we started back in the summer of 1996, required our dedicated service customers to provide full justification for IPs, including why can't what they need to do be done using name based hosting instead, and closely following up on IP usage and revoking allocated IPs where they are not used, or used with no true justification. Also, we were one of the first (to the best of my knowledge, the first) IPPs to provide full service name-based hosting, compatible with *all* browsers (yes, HTTP/1.0 too). That was back in late 1996 or early 1997 if I recall correctly. Now most of our virtual hosting, as well as that of our hosting company customers, is done using name-based sites. The split is about 8:1 -eight name based virtual sites for every one IP-based one. The thing to keep in mind here is that HTTP/1.0 browsers can still get to name based sites no problem. All it takes is a simple shell script that'll grab the HTTP_REFERRER and based on that (simple if...then) redirect customer to the proper URL (say: namesite.com/namesite/) that has been setup as a link specifically for the old browsers. (Funny how ARIN's "instructions for using name-based virtual hosting" are utterly useless and only provide links to some generic URLs giving no solutions to the real problems, such as backward browser compatibility, among many others.) So this is one issue that should be of no concern, basic site functionality in stone-age browsers. (99.8%+ of web traffic now is fully name-based compliant anyhow from our observations) Before I outline the practical situations where name based hosting is the best and is justified, let me first list clearly all the limitations of it - all the reasons why IP based hosting is required for some sites (why our name:IP ratio is 8:1 and not 80:1). - SSL - virtual FTP - virtual POP - a number of issues for large/complex sites, such as database connectivity, proprietary application implementation, clustering, accounting for bandwidth and not traffic, QoS, etc. Now, these are service-related issues. There are other usability related issues which are present for all name-based sites: - search engine indexing - a real problem for some spiders, still, to index name-based sites (way to overcome it: use http://www.namesite.com/namesite/ URL, where the /namesite/ is a symlink to the actual site public_html and works via HTTP/1.0. Of course, not a favoured solution in customers' eyes as the URL doesn't look as "respectable," but, it works.) - IP blocking - a valid issue which there is no way to overcome (for sure, no one can do any porn site hosting on a name-based basis, as if one IP is blocked from spamming search engines, or from AOL, then all customers are in trouble; solution: hosting 'controversial' and 'high-risk' sites must be an exception until blocking mechanisms at the powers that be are setup using names and not IPs, specifically for HTTP and not all-out per IP) Also, Virtual DNS (to the best of my knowledge we were the first company offering this service back in late 1996). A separate issue, but one to kept in mind - a very valid use of IPs, as every nameserver must have a unique IP, so if a customer has ns1 & ns2.theirdomain.com setup on the nameserver, two unique IPs must be used. All in all, this creates quite a few exceptions to the ARIN rules. A lot of protocols used to provide services other than plain web hosting are solely based on IPs, with no possible way - for now - to go on to name-based basis instead. Knowing the web hosting industry by being an active and innovative (we like to think so) part of it for the last 5 years, I am sure that there are going to be more exceptions - many, many more - than compliance to the rules. ARIN needs to do its homework and come up with rules that actually take into account the needs of the web hosting industry, clearly outlined, and define what it means by "web hosting," too. The way the policy stand now, it's not any better than before when there were no rules, it'll just make it even harder to get IPs for perfectly legitimate uses (such as SSL-based sites, as we have already seen in this thread - ARIN refusing IPs despite the very valid e'xceptionary' justification being that sites are using SSL). I don't think it's that complicated and hard to come up with a more workable and clearly defined policy. Some key points to consider, what I would put in there -- - Essentially, a simple "use name-based hosting unless IP-based hosting is required" policy. Some hosting companies, such as us, have been following that on their own initiative. Others will need to change. No other choice here, though. Better sooner than later, it may be painful, but it'll hurt less now than later (a policy on web hosting IP allocation is some 3-4 years overdue already, where were the ARIN policy makers for the last few years?). - More specifically, define and differentiate "mid to high-range hosting" and "low-end" hosting, whereby low-end is small, simple web sites with no SSL, virtual FTP, or any custom applications, nor need for real-time bandwidth measuring, QoS, and other high end services. Require (or request) all mass-market web hosts to offer such a low-end solution, so that users who do not need IPs are not automatically given hosting that is IP-based (i.e. a offering an IP and services a customer doesn't need 'forcibly' by there being no alternative does not create grounds for exception). Allow web hosts to use "mid" or "high-range" hosting services as justification for IPs, and perhaps request to elaborate on that (specific features that need IPs). There are simply much too many needs for IPs where there is NO clear alternative, so unless ARIN can tell us how to use SSL, or virtual FTP, or virtual POP, or create a unique nameserver (VDNS), or use one of the many other many IP-dependant services on a name-based site, those are all exceptions. - The exceptions are so many, that the basic principles of those should be clearly defined and the process made less cumbersome by allowing IPs for mid to high-end sites that need them for proper functionality. Also, keep in mind the black-listing of IPs. To that issue there is no solution, but, that alone can not be enough grounds for using a unique IP for every site. However, ARIN could take the high ground on this and try to request the vendors of the relevant software to implement name-based HTTP-only blocking (of course, not as easy as it sounds, but than sooner the effort starts, than better). - Also, why not write up and publish a checklist that web hosts must follow when allocating IPs to their dedicated clients, going by which they can determine whether the IP request is justified, or not. I've seen some companies get confused and say that all their customer IP requests must be approved by ARIN; obviously ARIN wants to avoid that, so why not write up IP allocation guidelines and a checklist for web hosts offering dedicated service? I think that about sums it up. It's clear that ARIN didn't do its homework, by creating this vague, unclear, policy. It is indeed very much needed to push web hosts to use IPs effectively; however, a policy can not be formed without first understanding the underlying issues. Hopefully ARIN will listen to the many valid comments and suggestions submitted in this thread and act accordingly in improving this policy. By taking some time to develop reasonable, logical, policies on web host IP allocation, ARIN could save itself, and the hosting companies, a lot of headaches and wasted time. As a final remark, it is also interesting how there have been very few, virtually no, hosting companies participating in this discussion. The general industry attitude I've seen on this is that there will be always a way to get around the new rules, due to the wide open exceptions allowance (or, even more so, just the same old tactics - corresponding with ARIN until it gets sick and tired of you and gives you the IPs you need, still not understanding what and how they are used for). It would do everyone much good if the rules were more clear, as then they could be also more firm. The new policy has not hit the hosting industry nearly as strongly as it should have. Perhaps because it is laughably vague and illogical, effectively changing nothing. At least, that was my reaction when I first read it. Most seem to think they can continue doing what they do, as opposed to improving their IP usage efficiency, and just ride on ARIN's lack of understanding of hosting. A clear policy with differentiated hosting levels and IP justification criteria defined would change that. I hope that someone at ARIN is listening... -- Haralds Jass Superb Internet - "Ahead of the Rest." http://www.superb.net "I am easily satisfied by the very best" - Winston Churchill From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 14:06:35 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA06705 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:03:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA06700 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:03:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.ntrnet.net (smtp.ntrnet.net [206.66.160.32]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16857 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:02:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dave.hom.net (dbs.ntrnet.net [208.241.155.83]) by smtp.ntrnet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D941F00A for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914134936.00a36110@pop.hom.net> X-Sender: dbs@pop.hom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:01:54 -0400 To: arin-discuss@arin.net From: Dave Stewart Subject: Re: Correcting the mistake In-Reply-To: References: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914113555.00a17b80@pop.hom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR At 11:33 AM 9/14/00 -0500, Mury wrote: >Absolutely we can find a solution. Today? Next week? In an ideal world >ARIN could institute a policy and we could all make it work >tomorrow. It's just not reality. Some things are more difficult than >others to make work. Maybe web based hosting is more difficult to >technologically achieve than other things. It's not more difficult to achieve. Certainly it can be done. And easily. The problems revolve around the ways to be able to track and bill for bandwidth utilization. Even control utilization. And I acknowledge that it's a problem. Right now, it would be expensive to implement. >Everything can be done, some things are more difficult than others. Some >things we *can't* do today, even though we are close. I for one do not >have the time, intelligence, or money to create the necessary hardware to >make web based hosting work as IP based hosting does. This policy is >premature. No question. That's why I suggested retracting it, and re-announcing it with an effective date in the future. As I said in a previous post, it doesn't *have* to be 90 or 120 days - maybe 6 months is doable - maybe not. I don't know. > > Part of the solution, in my opinion, is to continue to allow justification > > based on IP-based virtual hosts. If that's your business model, how > you've > > built an entire company or even part of a company, then in my mind, that > > justifies the allocation. > >That would be great, if ARIN would spell that out in the policy. It >cannot be left up for debate between ARIN staff and a person requesting >space. I agree. Proper justifications do need to be spelled out. But there also has to be room for special cases that either a) didn't exist when the policy was written or b) nobody thought to include in the policy. > > Or, we can just let our fear of change rule our lives and our businesses. > >I hate these comments. ISPs be nature are always changing or they >wouldn't be ISPs. None of us got here by sitting on our asses. Many do change - some do not. But you know as well as anyone that there's resistance to almost any change. Particularly a change mandated by someone else. None of us has a problem with change - when we initiate it, because by the time we do initiate it, we're comfortable with it. There's nothing inherently wrong with the fear of change. I just have a problem when people are obstinate for no other reason than that fear. > > I'm fairly sure most of you will agree that we'd like to see more of the > > thought process behind policy changes. > >That sure sounds good ;) Then we need to make sure it becomes the practice at ARIN. > > ARIN doesn't have the authority to put more than a band-aid on it. > >Well, then the system is flawed. Instead of spending this precious time >talking about one of ARIN policies, perhaps we should be figuring out how >to find a real solution. I really didn't intend to get into a debate about right/wrong. Of course the system is flawed, and the game is rigged. But don't let that stop you (badly paraphrasing Heinlein) from playing. All I meant to do was suggest a few ways that we can keep from being blindsided quite so badly by policy changes from on high. I think they're workable. Whether anyone "in power" at ARIN agrees is another matter. >Of course for the sake of the community every company who sells web >hosting products that would run fine on web based hosting should do it. Yes. A thought for those of you who do IP based hosting... why not put new clients/sites on name-based hosting as they come in, if possible. If they need SSL, it isn't.. if they're paying per mb of transfer, it may or may not be. It's just a thought. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 14:28:52 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA11948 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:24:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA11891 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:24:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns2.harpweek.com (ns2.harpweek.com [207.68.42.66]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29090 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:24:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mborchers (Administrators@localhost) by ns2.harpweek.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA00277; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:24:11 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Message-Id: <200009141824.OAA00277@ns2.harpweek.com> From: "Mark Borchers" To: arin-discuss@arin.net Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:22:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: Correcting the mistake Reply-to: markb@infi.net CC: hostmaster@raha.com In-reply-to: References: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914113555.00a17b80@pop.hom.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On 14 Sep 00, at 20:09, Hostmaster wrote: > No, I digress. It's this sitting on the sidelines with hands raised > bemoaning 'authority' that really pisses me off. ARIN think they have the > "authority" to tell me IP which is actually BEING USED is being used > inefficiently? For every bureaucrat who thinks this policy is sensible, I'll > bet there are ten people living in the real world who will disagree... Well, as a resident of the real world, I must say that yes, as a registry under IANA, in a position of stewardship over IP number resources, ARIN has the authority to make and implement allocation policy, thank goodness. Perhaps you forget that just a few years ago, responsible organizations took address conservation seriously enough that CIDR became globally implemented. THAT cost money, too. THAT impacted businesses, too. But it was the right thing to do. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 14:34:44 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA13349 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:31:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA13325; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:31:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns2.harpweek.com (ns2.harpweek.com [207.68.42.66]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02906; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:30:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mborchers (Administrators@localhost) by ns2.harpweek.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA00093; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:33:07 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Message-Id: <200009141833.OAA00093@ns2.harpweek.com> From: "Mark Borchers" To: Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:31:31 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: consistancy Reply-to: markb@infi.net CC: arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net References: <200009141715.KAA16845@boreas.isi.edu> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR If you are not already capable of locating "the list", perhaps you should not be thinking about acting as spokesman for "the community." On 14 Sep 00, at 12:38, Mury wrote: > Someone give me the list. I'll do my part and spend a day calling. If > they don't cooperate the community should not have to take no for an > answer. > > I would think in most people's mind it's far worse to have unused blocks, > than to have not so effectiently used blocks. > > Mury From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 14:55:28 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA16551 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:51:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA16538 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:51:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns.shawneelink.net (ns.shawneelink.net [216.240.66.11]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20325 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:51:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jan (gate24.shawneelink.net [216.240.79.24]) by ns.shawneelink.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8EIpI901210 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:51:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000914134349.00aee680@mail.jbacher.com> X-Sender: jb@mail.jbacher.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:58:33 -0500 To: arin-discuss@arin.net From: Jan Bacher Subject: Re: Correcting the mistake In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914134224.00a18a50@pop.hom.net> References: <4.2.2.20000914111532.00ae2170@mail.jbacher.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20000914113555.00a17b80@pop.hom.net> <5.0.0.25.2.20000914083739.00aedcf8@mail.ntrnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR >My point really was that just creating a policy and making it effective >immediately is bad for everyone. There needs to be time to look at all >sides, most importantly the technical aspects of the change, whatever it >may be. In some cases, technical solutions might be readily >available. In others, perhaps the solutions would have to be developed. > >But I do think ARIN should announce the policy change - and give us all >time to handle whatever changes would be necessary. > >In the case at hand now, perhaps 120 days is not enough. Maybe 180 is a >more realistic goal. Again: With our without effective solutions to implement? What matters is that effective solutions are available for implementation prior to the decision to change policy. It doesn't matter what designated date is determined if there is no universal solution and no consideration is given to determine the need for one. Do you make the policy and then determine the viability of the policy or do you first evaluate the viability? That's the real underlying problem here. The former occurred instead of the latter. This policy needs to be put on hold until such an evaluation has occurred and ARIN members have a realistic time frame in which to change procedure. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 15:06:32 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA18462 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:02:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA18453; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:02:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28946; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:02:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA30987; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:55:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:02:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: Mark Borchers cc: arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net, markb@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: <200009141833.OAA00093@ns2.harpweek.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Mark Borchers wrote: > If you are not already capable of locating "the list", perhaps > you should not be thinking about acting as spokesman for > "the community." ;) Such a friendly group. I will word my offer a little more clearly for those who take everything literally. 1) I am making the point we should reclaim unused space. 2) I am willing to do my part in helping if ARIN doesn't have the resources or the "authority" to accomplish the task. Mury From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 15:32:56 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA22000 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:25:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA21952 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:25:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from master1.yvr1.superb.net ([216.23.151.20]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03219 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:25:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riga-yvr1 (calliope.yvr1.superb.net [216.23.151.2]) by master1.yvr1.superb.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA06906; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:23:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009141923.MAA06906@master1.yvr1.superb.net> From: "Haralds Jass" Organization: Superb Internet Corp. http://www.superb.net To: markb@infi.net Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:35:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Reply-to: HJass@superb.net CC: arin-discuss@arin.net In-reply-to: <200009141910.PAA00257@ns2.harpweek.com> References: <200009141800.LAA04988@master1.yvr1.superb.net> Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Yes, agreed completely. That is why as I pointed out, we do have a ratio of roughly 8:1 for name-based:IP-based virtual hosting. It could and would be more, IF features such as SSL, virtual FTP, etc. worked on a name (header) as opposed to IP basis. When (I really do think when, not if) further improvements to the various protocols based on TCP/IP are made, then IPs can be used even less for such virtual applications. I think it's important to keep in mind that while there are a lot of hosting companies out there "wasting" IPs (it's a matter of prestige having more IPs than the next guy - "mine [IP allocation] is bigger than yours," and many will use IPs where there is no clear need for them), there are also many who are conserving IPs as much as they can. This is why a clearly defined policy on this would go a long way - outling what typical uses of IPs are justified *for now* (until improvements to protocols are made), where there is no other way, and simultaneously pushing for conservation of IPs by not allowing arbitrary usage of "an IP per site," as so many hosting companies do, just to appear bigger. This is very, very common in industry. Some even use "one IP for web site, one for SMTP for the site, another for POP for it, etc." - trying to use as many IPs as possible. Now this has to stop!! ARIN should focus first on eliminating arbitrary use of IPs for virtual hosting where not needed. Then as a second step, why doesn't ARIN form some lobbying part of it that pushes the powers that be (software developers et al) to implement name-based recognition features in SSL, FTP, etc.? Otherwise, now saying that IPs can't be used for virtual hosting at all is equivalant to saying that real IPs can't be used for dial-up (dynamically) at all, except that there is no NAT - no alternative of any sort. ARIN would never do that for dial-up, even though there is NAT. Yet to web hosting it's not only saying not to use IPs, it's doing so despite there being no alternatives to using IP for many common applications. This just makes no sense and it does seem like ARIN is heavily biased towards dial-up providers and against web hosts...or, more likely, it's just the lack of understanding I was referring to earlier. Solution? Just a few steps Step 1: write up clear, educated, guidelines based on feedback from web hosts Step 2: [work towards] eliminat[ing] the truly arbitrary usage present now - an important part of that is providing guidelines for web hosts to follow in allocating IPs to their resellers, as those are the people with "mine is bigger than yours" complex and inisist on sitting lots of IPs they don't use, or use for an arbitrary purpose at best Step 3 (the holy grail): push for protocol improvements to aid further IP conservation Step 4: essentially no IPs for virtual hosting allowed ARIN has went straigh to Step 4, yet there is no foundation for it that Steps 1 - 3 need to provide for it to work. On 14 Sep 00 at 14:08, Mark Borchers wrote: > Your post is certainly well-reasoned and well-written. I would just > like to make one comment. That is, that the lack of knowledge cuts > both ways in this issue. > > I think the web-hosting folks are asking that we perpetuate > what is essentially a networking hack in order to maintain > the status quo in the virtual hosting world. IP addresses > are fundamentally an entity for routing traffic to and > from a network device. To require a single device to be > provisioned with an (IMHO) extravagant number of addresses > from this finite pool is hard to swallow for a network > engineer, when it would seem like other means would serve. > > On 14 Sep 00, at 11:11, Haralds Jass wrote: > > > I have been following this thread quite closely and I'd like to throw > > in my comments, first arising from this thread specifically, and > > secondly about the bigger issue at stake here. > > > > It's been no surprise that those who don't really know web hosting > > agree with the policy completely and talk of trivial solutions to real > > problems and issues. Of course, it's always easier to talk than to > > actually do something (and isn't it those who talk and can't do that > > come up with hopelessly vague policies in the first place?). There > > have been a number of valid issues brought up to show the many needs > > for which there is no practical alternative to using unique IPs for > > virtual sites. I feel that this side has been discussed fairly and > > there have been no unbased needs put forth. > > > > Now then, going to the specifics, there's a number of things > > fundamentally wrong with the policy. It seems to be arising from the > > fact that no one at ARIN really knows web hosting. Before this policy > > was in effect, ARIN effectively had no notion of the existence of such > > a thing as web hosting. At least, that's the impression I got, as > > every person at ARIN would come up with totally different, > > inconsistent, requirements for address usage proof to allocate IPs - > > the rules were trivially made up on the spot. I know it's not just me, > > as even before the policy was created, I was asked by the organizers > > of the Web Host Expo (I'm on its board of advisors), regarding this > > issue and I was told that most other hosting companies feel the same > > way - that ARIN *should* develop some sort of clear policy for this, > > effectively "recognizing" web hosting as a valid need of IPs. Well, > > ARIN did indeed come up with a policy, however, one that shows total > > lack of understanding of what web hosting is and what IPs are needed > > for. > > > > Now, I'm a firm believer in effective IP address usage on a per-need > > basis, only. We have always, since we started back in the summer of > > 1996, required our dedicated service customers to provide full > > justification for IPs, including why can't what they need to do be > > done using name based hosting instead, and closely following up on IP > > usage and revoking allocated IPs where they are not used, or used with > > no true justification. Also, we were one of the first (to the best of > > my knowledge, the first) IPPs to provide full service name-based > > hosting, compatible with *all* browsers (yes, HTTP/1.0 too). That was > > back in late 1996 or early 1997 if I recall correctly. Now most of our > > virtual hosting, as well as that of our hosting company customers, is > > done using name-based sites. The split is about 8:1 -eight name based > > virtual sites for every one IP-based one. > > > > The thing to keep in mind here is that HTTP/1.0 browsers can still get > > to name based sites no problem. All it takes is a simple shell script > > that'll grab the HTTP_REFERRER and based on that (simple if...then) > > redirect customer to the proper URL (say: namesite.com/namesite/) that > > has been setup as a link specifically for the old browsers. (Funny how > > ARIN's "instructions for using name-based virtual hosting" are utterly > > useless and only provide links to some generic URLs giving no > > solutions to the real problems, such as backward browser > > compatibility, among many others.) So this is one issue that should be > > of no concern, basic site functionality in stone-age browsers. (99.8%+ > > of web traffic now is fully name-based compliant anyhow from our > > observations) > > > > Before I outline the practical situations where name based hosting is > > the best and is justified, let me first list clearly all the > > limitations of it - all the reasons why IP based hosting is required > > for some sites (why our name:IP ratio is 8:1 and not 80:1). > > > > - SSL > > > > - virtual FTP > > > > - virtual POP > > > > - a number of issues for large/complex sites, such as database > > connectivity, proprietary application implementation, clustering, > > accounting for bandwidth and not traffic, QoS, etc. > > > > Now, these are service-related issues. There are other usability > > related issues which are present for all name-based sites: > > > > - search engine indexing - a real problem for some spiders, still, to > > index name-based sites (way to overcome it: use > > http://www.namesite.com/namesite/ URL, where the /namesite/ is a > > symlink to the actual site public_html and works via HTTP/1.0. Of > > course, not a favoured solution in customers' eyes as the URL doesn't > > look as "respectable," but, it works.) > > > > - IP blocking - a valid issue which there is no way to overcome (for > > sure, no one can do any porn site hosting on a name-based basis, as if > > one IP is blocked from spamming search engines, or from AOL, then all > > customers are in trouble; solution: hosting 'controversial' and > > 'high-risk' sites must be an exception until blocking mechanisms at > > the powers that be are setup using names and not IPs, specifically for > > HTTP and not all-out per IP) > > > > Also, Virtual DNS (to the best of my knowledge we were the first > > company offering this service back in late 1996). A separate issue, > > but one to kept in mind - a very valid use of IPs, as every nameserver > > must have a unique IP, so if a customer has ns1 & ns2.theirdomain.com > > setup on the nameserver, two unique IPs must be used. > > > > All in all, this creates quite a few exceptions to the ARIN rules. A > > lot of protocols used to provide services other than plain web hosting > > are solely based on IPs, with no possible way - for now - to go on to > > name-based basis instead. Knowing the web hosting industry by being an > > active and innovative (we like to think so) part of it for the last 5 > > years, I am sure that there are going to be more exceptions - many, > > many more - than compliance to the rules. ARIN needs to do its > > homework and come up with rules that actually take into account the > > needs of the web hosting industry, clearly outlined, and define what > > it means by "web hosting," too. The way the policy stand now, it's not > > any better than before when there were no rules, it'll just make it > > even harder to get IPs for perfectly legitimate uses (such as > > SSL-based sites, as we have already seen in this thread - ARIN > > refusing IPs despite the very valid e'xceptionary' justification being > > that sites are using SSL). > > > > I don't think it's that complicated and hard to come up with a more > > workable and clearly defined policy. Some key points to consider, what > > I would put in there -- > > > > - Essentially, a simple "use name-based hosting unless IP-based > > hosting is required" policy. Some hosting companies, such as us, have > > been following that on their own initiative. Others will need to > > change. No other choice here, though. Better sooner than later, it may > > be painful, but it'll hurt less now than later (a policy on web > > hosting IP allocation is some 3-4 years overdue already, where were > > the ARIN policy makers for the last few years?). > > > > - More specifically, define and differentiate "mid to high-range > > hosting" and "low-end" hosting, whereby low-end is small, simple web > > sites with no SSL, virtual FTP, or any custom applications, nor need > > for real-time bandwidth measuring, QoS, and other high end services. > > Require (or request) all mass-market web hosts to offer such a low-end > > solution, so that users who do not need IPs are not automatically > > given hosting that is IP-based (i.e. a offering an IP and services a > > customer doesn't need 'forcibly' by there being no alternative does > > not create grounds for exception). Allow web hosts to use "mid" or > > "high-range" hosting services as justification for IPs, and perhaps > > request to elaborate on that (specific features that need IPs). There > > are simply much too many needs for IPs where there is NO clear > > alternative, so unless ARIN can tell us how to use SSL, or virtual > > FTP, or virtual POP, or create a unique nameserver (VDNS), or use one > > of the many other many IP-dependant services on a name-based site, > > those are all exceptions. > > > > - The exceptions are so many, that the basic principles of those > > should be clearly defined and the process made less cumbersome by > > allowing IPs for mid to high-end sites that need them for proper > > functionality. Also, keep in mind the black-listing of IPs. To that > > issue there is no solution, but, that alone can not be enough grounds > > for using a unique IP for every site. However, ARIN could take the > > high ground on this and try to request the vendors of the relevant > > software to implement name-based HTTP-only blocking (of course, not as > > easy as it sounds, but than sooner the effort starts, than better). > > > > - Also, why not write up and publish a checklist that web hosts must > > follow when allocating IPs to their dedicated clients, going by which > > they can determine whether the IP request is justified, or not. I've > > seen some companies get confused and say that all their customer IP > > requests must be approved by ARIN; obviously ARIN wants to avoid that, > > so why not write up IP allocation guidelines and a checklist for web > > hosts offering dedicated service? > > > > I think that about sums it up. It's clear that ARIN didn't do its > > homework, by creating this vague, unclear, policy. It is indeed very > > much needed to push web hosts to use IPs effectively; however, a > > policy can not be formed without first understanding the underlying > > issues. Hopefully ARIN will listen to the many valid comments and > > suggestions submitted in this thread and act accordingly in improving > > this policy. By taking some time to develop reasonable, logical, > > policies on web host IP allocation, ARIN could save itself, and the > > hosting companies, a lot of headaches and wasted time. > > > > As a final remark, it is also interesting how there have been very > > few, virtually no, hosting companies participating in this discussion. > > The general industry attitude I've seen on this is that there will be > > always a way to get around the new rules, due to the wide open > > exceptions allowance (or, even more so, just the same old tactics - > > corresponding with ARIN until it gets sick and tired of you and gives > > you the IPs you need, still not understanding what and how they are > > used for). It would do everyone much good if the rules were more > > clear, as then they could be also more firm. The new policy has not > > hit the hosting industry nearly as strongly as it should have. Perhaps > > because it is laughably vague and illogical, effectively changing > > nothing. At least, that was my reaction when I first read it. Most > > seem to think they can continue doing what they do, as opposed to > > improving their IP usage efficiency, and just ride on ARIN's lack of > > understanding of hosting. A clear policy with differentiated hosting > > levels and IP justification criteria defined would change that. > > > > I hope that someone at ARIN is listening... > > > > > > -- > > Haralds Jass > > Superb Internet - "Ahead of the Rest." > > http://www.superb.net > > > > "I am easily satisfied by the very best" > > - Winston Churchill > -- Haralds Jass Superb Internet - "Ahead of the Rest." http://www.superb.net "I am easily satisfied by the very best" - Winston Churchill From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 15:47:30 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA23637 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:40:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA23630 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:40:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [199.222.42.2]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA11972 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:40:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (3959 bytes) by malasada.lava.net via sendmail with P:stdio/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:38:13 -1000 (HST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 2000-May-15) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:38:12 -1000 From: hostmaster@LAVA.NET To: Dave Stewart Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: Correcting the mistake Message-ID: <20000914093810.F19329@lava.net> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914113555.00a17b80@pop.hom.net> <5.0.0.25.2.20000914134936.00a36110@pop.hom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0us In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914134936.00a36110@pop.hom.net>; from dbs@hom.net on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:01:54PM -0400 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:01:54PM -0400, Dave Stewart wrote: > At 11:33 AM 9/14/00 -0500, Mury wrote: > >Absolutely we can find a solution. Today? Next week? In an ideal world > >ARIN could institute a policy and we could all make it work > >tomorrow. It's just not reality. Some things are more difficult than > >others to make work. Maybe web based hosting is more difficult to > >technologically achieve than other things. > > It's not more difficult to achieve. Certainly it can be done. And easily. > > The problems revolve around the ways to be able to track and bill for > bandwidth utilization. Even control utilization. Actually, I think tracking and billing bandwidth utilization, for one large class of web-hosters - those running a moderately recent Apache release on UNIX boxes - might prove feasible. "All it would take" (quotes intended!) is an Apache plug-in log module to log hits on a particular host into an RRDtool (=round-robin database) file (like Cricket uses for logging router data, and which MRTG is converting to.) This wouldn't replace the existing Apache logs, but would supplement them with the same data web hosters are getting off the Netflow type IP-based logging. You can pop updates into an RRD pretty much as they happen and have them averaged into your defined time interval, as long as you "stroke" it every so often (add a 0 on 5 minute intervals, e.g.) to let it know it's still being updated with valid data. Then you can make pretty MRTG-style graphs off of it, analyse it later for peaks/ averages/95%, etc. This does require a moderate amount of code to be developed, but it has the potential to actually be a better tool than the current mechanism people are using. It would be efficient because the RRD code is tuned to operate efficiently with floating-point math and update its files in place, and it could be executed directly from within the Apache process without having to write huge logs and post-process them later. Comments on this idea? In general, this discussion has been quite helpful to me, because it has pointed out that we've been misinterpreting some of the data we'd collected here about feasibility of name-based hosting. (The HTTP 1.0 vs. HTTP 1.1 issue.) If ARIN made one of its focuses ISP education - creating some web resources on how to exploit the existing features of common software, how to interpret your Browser header info to measure your real percentage of hits that could be served by name-based hosts - and also focused on coordinating development of new software, where needed, to better serve a more efficient use of address space, then I think all parties (and the Internet at large) would be better served than with the current style of interaction. I am seeing from the response by ARIN participants here that ARIN does not mean to be arbitrary and punitive, but when you're a small ISP applying for desperately needed address space, ARIN really does seem that way frequently. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- cliftonr@lava.net The named which can be named is not the Eternal named. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 16:26:43 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA01120 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:24:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA01116 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:24:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from master1.yvr1.superb.net ([216.23.151.20]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00855 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:24:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riga-yvr1 (calliope.yvr1.superb.net [216.23.151.2]) by master1.yvr1.superb.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA08485 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:23:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009142023.NAA08485@master1.yvr1.superb.net> From: "Haralds Jass" Organization: Superb Internet Corp. http://www.superb.net To: arin-discuss@arin.net Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:34:41 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting justification Reply-to: HJass@superb.net In-reply-to: <200009141910.PAA00257@ns2.harpweek.com> References: <200009141800.LAA04988@master1.yvr1.superb.net> Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR To add a bit more on the lack of understanding by hosting companies of ARIN, where I meant to write more in my last message... It's a very good point indeed. It's important to keep in mind that the way most hosting companies (wrongly) view ARIN is as some old-world institution that has no impact on them. A lot of web hosts really do see themselves as "holier than thou," and having such a hopessly vague policy is...well, hopeless for ARIN. I am certain that if this policy stays and ARIN refuses IP allocation to some mid-size and large web hosts (even if they have no valid exceptions), they'll get their lawyers and not their systems engineers on the case. A "better," detailed and issue-based, policy would avoid a lot (but for sure not all) such potential problems for ARIN. Also then most hosting companies would take it seriously; now most have just looked at it, had a good laugh, and forgotten about it. When a real policy is worked out, ARIN should actively promote it and explain it to all involved, keeping in mind that a lot of hosting companies do not have their own IPs from ARIN but rather colocate and get their IPs elsewhere (this means it's very important to have the colo providers, those who get IPs from ARIN, to have policies consistent with those of ARIN in IP allocation, and spread the word on that to their customers). Now a lot web hosts simply think they'll still get IPs as they used to from their colo provider, thus bypassing the ARIN rules. This is what ARIN needs to get around, by (1) ensuring that the colo providers spread the word to their customers and ensure that they do the needful changes to their hosting server setups, and (2) possibly also contacting some of the larger hosting companies directly, though they do not deal with ARIN directly. -- Haralds Jass Superb Internet - "Ahead of the Rest." http://www.superb.net "I am easily satisfied by the very best" - Winston Churchill From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 18:24:42 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA09879 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:20:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA09875 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:20:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from po2.bbn.com (PO2.BBN.COM [192.1.50.36]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA27926 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:20:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smarcus.genuity.com (burl-dhcp151-242.bbn.com [171.78.151.242]) by po2.bbn.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA00921; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:21:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000914181938.04153ec0@pobox3.genuity.com> X-Sender: smarcus@pobox3.genuity.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:19:38 -0400 To: hostmaster@LAVA.NET From: "J. Scott Marcus" Subject: Re: Correcting the mistake Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net In-Reply-To: <20000914093810.F19329@lava.net> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20000914134936.00a36110@pop.hom.net> <5.0.0.25.2.20000914113555.00a17b80@pop.hom.net> <5.0.0.25.2.20000914134936.00a36110@pop.hom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR At 09:38 09/14/2000 -1000, hostmaster@LAVA.NET wrote: > ... If ARIN made one of its focuses ISP education - creating some web >resources on how to exploit the existing features of common software, >how to interpret your Browser header info to measure your real >percentage of hits that could be served by name-based hosts - and also >focused on coordinating development of new software, where needed, to >better serve a more efficient use of address space, then I think all >parties (and the Internet at large) would be better served than with >the current style of interaction... This is an interesting thought. My sense is that ARIN has done somewhat less of this kind of education than has, for instance, RIPE. Perhaps there is indeed an opportunity for ARIN to do much more ... > I am seeing from the response by ARIN participants here that ARIN >does not mean to be arbitrary and punitive, but when you're a small ISP >applying for desperately needed address space, ARIN really does seem >that way frequently. ARIN's a not-for-profit membership organization, just trying to do the right thing for the Internet community... And, man! It can be tough. If there's one thing that this whole exchange has brought home (to me, at least), it's the need for ARIN to solicit and obtain more input (and earlier) from a broader community of interest. Thanks to all for taking the time to educate us... Cheers, - Scott (ARIN board member, but speaking for himself only) From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 21:07:18 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA14776 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:04:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA14765; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:04:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA26072; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:04:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id DC2003DC1; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:04:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:04:45 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: Suzanne Woolf Cc: Mike Horwath , bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, "Alec H. Peterson" , Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000914200445.B23272@Geeks.ORG> References: <20000914100556.A19048@Geeks.ORG> <200009141715.KAA16845@boreas.isi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009141715.KAA16845@boreas.isi.edu>; from woolf@ISI.EDU on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:15:57AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:15:57AM -0700, Suzanne Woolf wrote: > > > > And how do you suggest they go about reclaiming IP blocks. > > > > Call'em up, drop'em email. > > Been there, done that. > > http://www.academ.com/nanog/feb1996/pier.ip.address.survey.html > (The slides are also available somewhere....) > > Interesting results include: > 1. Much of the contact data was simply unusable. > 2. The vast majority who did respond just said no. > > > I bet that many will be very cordial and will return the space that is > > unused. > > The folks who responded were mostly quite cordial, although a few > threatened to sue me for asking. Mostly, they were cordial about > saying "nope, we're keeping it." > > This was in 1996. I'm unconvinced the task would be easier now. But....you aren't ARIN, who does, as it stands, has authority to rip the addressing out of place. Really, if they can dish out the IPs, they can take'em away. Yes, it would suck. But wastage is wastage and a site with a /16 using a few hundred addresses is far more wasteful than any wastage I would have by having IP based virtual hosts. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 14 21:07:22 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA14801 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:05:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA14790; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:05:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA26629; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:05:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id C849A3DC1; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:05:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:05:33 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: Mark Borchers Cc: mury@goldengate.net, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000914200533.C23272@Geeks.ORG> References: <200009141715.KAA16845@boreas.isi.edu> <200009141833.OAA00093@ns2.harpweek.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009141833.OAA00093@ns2.harpweek.com>; from markb@infi.net on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:31:31PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:31:31PM -0500, Mark Borchers wrote: > If you are not already capable of locating "the list", perhaps > you should not be thinking about acting as spokesman for > "the community." Hmm...kind of rude. And I like rude. Mury, I can help. > On 14 Sep 00, at 12:38, Mury wrote: > > > Someone give me the list. I'll do my part and spend a day calling. If > > they don't cooperate the community should not have to take no for an > > answer. > > > > I would think in most people's mind it's far worse to have unused blocks, > > than to have not so effectiently used blocks. > > > > Mury -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Fri Sep 15 01:15:51 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id BAA18879 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:11:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id BAA18875; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:11:09 -0400 (EDT) From: avb@korax.net Received: from mail.korax.net (mail.korax.net [216.94.178.4]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA07091; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:11:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from scorpion.korax.net (scorpion.korax.net [216.94.178.9]) by mail.korax.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA08294; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:10:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:10:51 -0400 (EDT) To: Brian Wallingford cc: Mike Horwath , Suzanne Woolf , bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, "Alec H. Peterson" , Mury , Matt Bailey , arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Brian Wallingford wrote: > This exact "argument" has been rehashed too many times (I don't doubt > that, in one forum or another, I've initiated it in the past). ARIN does > *not* have the authority to reclaim legacy space. Nobody has the > authority to reclaim the terribly, irresponsibly underutilised space > allocated many moons ago. What would have to happen for ARIN to get that authority? Why can't IANA or ICANN give it the authority to do this? > Legacy space may as well be written off as unusable. Saying that almost > makes me physically ill, but it's a fact. Oh, man, that is *very* difficult to accept. IP addresses are a shared public resource which is globally administered by IANA/ICANN. They aren't anyone's property and they never have been. If the biggest problem with reclaiming legacy space is political, then surely that can be addressed. ARIN may not have the authority to reclaim, but *somebody*, at some higher level, has this authority, no? I would imagine that somebody would be IANA. To quote RFC2050: The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has authority over all number spaces used in the Internet. This includes Internet Address Space. It seems pretty clear-cut to me. What am I missing? These are all honest questions, btw. I'm very interested to know what the obstacles are, because I'm having a real tough time accepting the idea that this is an unfixable situation. Regards, -- Alex Bulan Network Administrator Korax Online Inc. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Fri Sep 15 03:04:03 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id DAA28969 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:01:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id DAA28946; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:00:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elektra.ultra.net (elektra.ultra.net [146.115.9.13]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA24719; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:00:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from u-steve@localhost) by elektra.ultra.net (8.8.8/ult.n26500) id DAA15714; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:00:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200009150700.DAA15714@elektra.ultra.net> Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: <20000914200445.B23272@Geeks.ORG> from Mike Horwath at "Sep 14, 2000 08:04:45 pm" To: arin-discuss@arin.net Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:00:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Griffin Cc: ppml@arin.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL51 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR [CC-list cleaned up, since it was getting messy...] In the referenced message, Mike Horwath said: > But....you aren't ARIN, who does, as it stands, has authority to rip > the addressing out of place. > > Really, if they can dish out the IPs, they can take'em away. > > Yes, it would suck. But wastage is wastage and a site with a /16 > using a few hundred addresses is far more wasteful than any wastage I > would have by having IP based virtual hosts. It seems that most people fail to understand what ARIN is. ARIN is one of 3 RIRs (Regional Internet Registries). The other 2 being RIPE and APNIC. They are overseen by ICANN. ARIN has absolute authority over the address space they have been dictated to manage by ICANN, which does not include the majority of the space everyone is complaining about. I think ARIN (or any of the RIRs) would be ecstatic to have jurisdiction over this space, and would be happy to clean it up, but that is something to take up with ICANN. The biggest confusion is who actually does have authority, since these first allocations were made very early on. As it is, I was under the impression RIPE-NCC already had a policy such as this (re: web-hosting). They always seem to be right on top of things. Anyways, people have been claiming that ARIN doesn't understand web-hosting. I say they understand web-hosting at least as well as most of the people complaining understand ARIN. Speaking on my own behalf, Stephen A. Griffin Registrar - UltraNet Communications -- Stephen A. Griffin RCN Senior Development Engineer Internet Planning & Design stephen.griffin@rcn.com Network Deployment & Management From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Fri Sep 15 04:53:49 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id EAA09591 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 04:50:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id EAA09556; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 04:50:10 -0400 (EDT) From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Received: from vacation.karoshi.com (vacation.karoshi.com [198.32.4.20]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA11940; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 04:49:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmanning@localhost) by vacation.karoshi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA26884; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:59:21 GMT Message-Id: <200009150859.IAA26884@vacation.karoshi.com> Subject: Re: consistancy To: mury@goldengate.net (Mury) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:59:21 +0000 (UCT) Cc: markb@infi.net (Mark Borchers), arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net, markb@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com In-Reply-To: from "Mury" at Sep 14, 2000 02:02:37 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > Such a friendly group. I will word my offer a little more clearly for > those who take everything literally. > > 1) I am making the point we should reclaim unused space. > 2) I am willing to do my part in helping if ARIN doesn't have the > resources or the "authority" to accomplish the task. > > Mury |First off, start with your own "unused" space. |Second, would you appreciate a random call from someone you've never heard of asking you to give up your IP space? Suzanne helped me in one of my reclaimation efforts in years past. Those efforts were sactioned by the IANA. Offers to assit ARIN have fallen of deaf ears and so little has been done recently. Still, there has been some forward progress. Stanford finally returned net 36 to the IANA after nearly a decade. So reclaimation is working, but perhaps not quite at the speed you would like. --bill From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Fri Sep 15 04:56:42 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id EAA09878 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 04:53:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id EAA09874; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 04:53:46 -0400 (EDT) From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Received: from vacation.karoshi.com (vacation.karoshi.com [198.32.4.20]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA01086; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 04:53:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmanning@localhost) by vacation.karoshi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA26900; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:03:07 GMT Message-Id: <200009150903.JAA26900@vacation.karoshi.com> Subject: Re: consistancy To: brian@meganet.net (Brian Wallingford) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:03:07 +0000 (UCT) Cc: drechsau@geeks.org (Mike Horwath), woolf@ISI.EDU (Suzanne Woolf), ahp@hilander.com (Alec H. Peterson), mury@goldengate.net (Mury), mbailey@journey.net (Matt Bailey), arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net In-Reply-To: from "Brian Wallingford" at Sep 14, 2000 09:58:41 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > : Really, if they can dish out the IPs, they can take'em away. > > In a utopian world, yes. But.. Actually ARIN can take away addresses -from the blocks it was delegated-. > that, in one forum or another, I've initiated it in the past). ARIN does > *not* have the authority to reclaim legacy space. Nobody has the > authority to reclaim the terribly, irresponsibly underutilised space > allocated many moons ago. Actually the IANA does. Thats how I manged to get 16% of the total IPv4 space retruned to the freepool in 1995/1996. Its doable, --bill From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Fri Sep 15 09:31:51 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA26854 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:26:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA26850 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:26:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from monet.titania.net (monet.titania.net [209.207.60.17]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28987 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:26:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from titania.net (gatekeeper.cogentco.com [206.64.112.115]) by monet.titania.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA13051 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:26:36 GMT Message-ID: <39C223C0.E77B9256@titania.net> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:27:28 -0400 From: "Joseph T. Klein" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: <200009150859.IAA26884@vacation.karoshi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Bill et al. Why not just up the anti a notch and require that all legacy address space have working in-addr records by January 1, 2001 or that space shall be deemed inactive and returned to the public pool. IANA can delegate enforcement to the registries using the address as registered. i.e. If the address is in the ARIN region, ARIN enforces the deallocation. Due to the history of the Internet this is primarily a North American issue. Small organizations requiring multi-homing could then hopefully get space from the legacy "swamp" allocations retrieved from this effort. This would avoid de-aggrigation of the larger CIDR blocks. The de-aggrigation issue almost caused a riot at the Montreal NANOG when Above.net advocated it for improved MED savvy routing. I would hope re-using the swamp space can be a workable compromise. New core router technology has reduced many of the ill effects of limited de-aggrigation. I suspect large portions of the early allocations belong to defunct organizations or have been forgotten by the rightful owners. bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > > > Such a friendly group. I will word my offer a little more clearly for > > those who take everything literally. > > > > 1) I am making the point we should reclaim unused space. > > 2) I am willing to do my part in helping if ARIN doesn't have the > > resources or the "authority" to accomplish the task. > > > > Mury > > |First off, start with your own "unused" space. > |Second, would you appreciate a random call from > someone you've never heard of asking you to give up > your IP space? > > Suzanne helped me in one of my reclaimation efforts > in years past. Those efforts were sactioned by the IANA. > Offers to assit ARIN have fallen of deaf ears and so > little has been done recently. Still, there has been > some forward progress. Stanford finally returned net > 36 to the IANA after nearly a decade. So reclaimation is working, > but perhaps not quite at the speed you would like. > > --bill -- Joseph T. Klein jtk@titania.net Cogent Communications jklein@cogentco.com +1 202 295 4217 +1 414 915 7489 From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Fri Sep 15 10:29:57 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA03392 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:26:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA03388; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:26:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns.shawneelink.net (ns.shawneelink.net [216.240.66.11]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05926; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:26:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns.shawneelink.net (ns.shawneelink.net [216.240.66.11]) by ns.shawneelink.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8FEOk925079; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:24:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:24:46 -0500 (CDT) From: J Bacher X-Sender: jb@ns.shawneelink.net To: arin-discuss@arin.net cc: ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > Oh, man, that is *very* difficult to accept. IP addresses are a shared > public resource which is globally administered by IANA/ICANN. They aren't > anyone's property and they never have been. If the biggest problem with Have a bake sale and buy them back. Yes, I am being somewhat facetious but understand that the p&m won't fix the problem. There are options and all of them need to be considered. Outline the problem and lay out every possible solution. Identify each solution's feasibility and probability using a point system. Take the most viable solutions [with the hightest combined point rating] and attack them first. Actions speak louder than words. The trustees and advisories should be able to tell us the best way to tackle this [and other] issues. Where is the plan? From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Fri Sep 15 10:58:01 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA07427 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:53:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA07423 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:53:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kcimail.keyconnect.com (kcimail.keyconnect.com [64.29.130.3]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02079 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:53:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from keyconnect.com (euclid3.keyconnect.com [64.29.134.245]) by kcimail.keyconnect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA14801; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 07:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39C237FB.5735284E@keyconnect.com> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 07:53:47 -0700 From: Greg Hiscott Reply-To: gjh@KEYCONNECT.COM Organization: Key Connections, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: avb@korax.net, arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR It It is very difficult to accept. That is one of the reasons I am devoting my time to try to do something about this. The big corporations and exisiting telecomm companies are using this situation to leverage against newcomers to the business. They cannot even sell fast enough to use the IP space they have but they are able to withold it from others. avb@korax.net wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Brian Wallingford wrote: > > > This exact "argument" has been rehashed too many times (I don't doubt > > that, in one forum or another, I've initiated it in the past). ARIN does > > *not* have the authority to reclaim legacy space. Nobody has the > > authority to reclaim the terribly, irresponsibly underutilised space > > allocated many moons ago. > > What would have to happen for ARIN to get that authority? Why can't IANA > or ICANN give it the authority to do this? > > > Legacy space may as well be written off as unusable. Saying that almost > > makes me physically ill, but it's a fact. > > Oh, man, that is *very* difficult to accept. IP addresses are a shared > public resource which is globally administered by IANA/ICANN. They aren't > anyone's property and they never have been. If the biggest problem with > reclaiming legacy space is political, then surely that can be addressed. > ARIN may not have the authority to reclaim, but *somebody*, at some higher > level, has this authority, no? I would imagine that somebody would be > IANA. To quote RFC2050: > > The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has authority over all > number spaces used in the Internet. This includes Internet > Address Space. > > It seems pretty clear-cut to me. What am I missing? > > These are all honest questions, btw. I'm very interested to know what the > obstacles are, because I'm having a real tough time accepting the idea > that this is an unfixable situation. > > Regards, > -- > Alex Bulan > Network Administrator > Korax Online Inc. -- http://keyconnect.com V:818.552.4455 F:818.545.0633 From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 11:25:57 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA02046 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:21:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA02035; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:21:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA22526; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:21:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id C89B53DCF; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:21:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:21:20 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: Stephen Griffin Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000916102120.A40875@Geeks.ORG> References: <20000914200445.B23272@Geeks.ORG> <200009150700.DAA15714@elektra.ultra.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009150700.DAA15714@elektra.ultra.net>; from stephen.griffin@rcn.com on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:00:28AM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:00:28AM -0400, Stephen Griffin wrote: > It seems that most people fail to understand what ARIN is. ARIN is one of > 3 RIRs (Regional Internet Registries). The other 2 being RIPE and APNIC. > They are overseen by ICANN. ARIN has absolute authority over the > address space they have been dictated to manage by ICANN, which does not > include the majority of the space everyone is complaining about. I think > ARIN (or any of the RIRs) would be ecstatic to have jurisdiction over > this space, and would be happy to clean it up, but that is something to > take up with ICANN. The biggest confusion is who actually does have > authority, since these first allocations were made very early on. * i128.101.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i131.212.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i134.84.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i146.57.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i * i160.94.0.0 165.117.59.14 4294967294 100 0 3561 3908 57 217 i Now, if the database at ARIN supported a field saying when these blocks were allocated, I would bet that some of them were allocated *after* CIDR was put into place and interNIC started asking for justification. (gawd, I hate picking on the UofM, I really do, but it is an example of wastage that is purty horrible) I have a new school connecting to us early next week with a /16 for a campus of under 10K students. :( There has to be a way to reclaim them! -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 12:02:54 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA02821 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:00:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA02810; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:00:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.raha.com (mail.raha.com [196.41.32.2]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06976; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:00:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from eyeball (ws041.startelecom.net [196.41.41.41]) by mail.raha.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 633-67771U5000L500S0V35) with SMTP id com; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:00:29 +0300 Reply-To: From: "Hostmaster" To: , Subject: RE: consistancy Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:00:28 +0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <20000916102120.A40875@Geeks.ORG> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > > It seems that most people fail to understand what ARIN is. ARIN > is one of > > 3 RIRs (Regional Internet Registries). The other 2 being RIPE and APNIC. > > They are overseen by ICANN. ARIN has absolute authority over the > > address space they have been dictated to manage by ICANN, which does not > > include the majority of the space everyone is complaining about. I think > > ARIN (or any of the RIRs) would be ecstatic to have jurisdiction over > > this space, and would be happy to clean it up, but that is something to > > take up with ICANN. The biggest confusion is who actually does have > > authority, since these first allocations were made very early on. Who cares? If the boundaries of authority are so unclear, make then clear. How hard is that. Don't ICANN, RIPE, APNIC and ARIN communicate, or cooperate? I agree, between APNIC, ARIN, RIPE and ICANN there's way too much confusion regarding who's responsible for what - but surely it's up to YOU guys to sit together and come up with a solution. At the end of the day those four bodies should be working towards a common goal, not shoulder shrugging and passing the baby to one another regarding 'authority'. It's clear that NO-ONE has, or is willing to accept, authority over the legacy space - this is where the main problem lies, so how about we fix it. Who all is scared to tell IBM "sort out your /8 or we stop routing it" ? > (gawd, I hate picking on the UofM, I really do, but it is an example > of wastage that is purty horrible) > > I have a new school connecting to us early next week with a /16 for a > campus of under 10K students. :( > > There has to be a way to reclaim them! A classic example. Find another three the same, persuade them to cooperate, and give them a /20 each. Voila - you got back roughly 1/4Million addresses from only 4 universities. More, I'll bet, than a YEAR of scraping around having people change from dedicated hosting to virtual hosting. A university with 10k students would have difficulty justifying even a /20 but if they can, and they need more - okay give them more I have no problem with that, does anyone? The first few are the hardest ones, the rest would follow by example, I'm sure. If not, establishment of exactly who has authority for the space in question is the only way to go - because those that refuse to fall into line could simply be blackholed with the additional cooperation of a few core backbone providers. Regards Bob From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 12:20:53 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA03325 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:19:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA03232; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:15:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA20872; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:15:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [216.241.32.50] (helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13aKc7-0005RJ-00; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:14:51 -0600 Message-ID: <39C39C7A.CD6398A0@hilander.com> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:14:50 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hostmaster@raha.com CC: arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR I agree that reclaiming address space is a good idea, and we are working on ways to do it. However, you all must accept the fact that reclaiming IP space and more efficient use of new IP allocations are not mutually exclusive. They are in fact separate discussions, and decisions on whether to do one will not affect the other. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 13:45:29 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA04900 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:43:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA04895; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:43:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gaslightmedia.com (harbor.gaslightmedia.com [208.171.24.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05023; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:43:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from harbor.gaslightmedia.com (harbor.gaslightmedia.com [208.171.24.1]) by gaslightmedia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00189; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:42:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:42:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Scott To: "Alec H. Peterson" cc: hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: <39C39C7A.CD6398A0@hilander.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > I agree that reclaiming address space is a good idea, and we are working on > ways to do it. > > However, you all must accept the fact that reclaiming IP space and more > efficient use of new IP allocations are not mutually exclusive. They are in > fact separate discussions, and decisions on whether to do one will not > affect the other. > > Alec Alec: Agreed. Reclaiming IP space and efficient use of new allocations are certainly not mutually exclusive, Similarly, the aggrigate preasure on IP address space affects both discussions and their outcome. Also, the outcome of both will affect the aggrigate preasure on IP address space. They are therefore intimately interwoven. I think however, that there is also a matter of balance. It appears that many in this discussion have a hard time accepting the idea that address space that's currently in productive use, however inefficiently, is more, or even equally, worth trying to reclaim than address space that is currently serving no usefull purpose whatsoever or is grossly in contrast with conservation. It is certainly the impression of this imbalance that is making it difficult for ARIN to deploy this policy. Until such time as all address space falls under the same level of scrutiny, it's unlikely that those providing Web hosting services, the very content of the Internet, will be convinced to expend considerable work and funds to essentially change the way they do business. Chuck Scott Gaslight Media From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 14:08:32 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA05589 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:06:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA05578; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:06:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00428; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:06:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id F20F83DCE; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:06:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:06:37 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000916130637.A87352@Geeks.ORG> References: <39C39C7A.CD6398A0@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39C39C7A.CD6398A0@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 10:14:50AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 10:14:50AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > However, you all must accept the fact that reclaiming IP space and > more efficient use of new IP allocations are not mutually exclusive. > They are in fact separate discussions, and decisions on whether to > do one will not affect the other. I don't think anyone is arguing about not trying to be more efficient at all and that these are completely exclusive of each other and can be done in parallel. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 15:24:31 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA07465 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:20:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA07461 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:20:08 -0400 (EDT) From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Received: from vacation.karoshi.com (vacation.karoshi.com [198.32.4.20]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24106 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:20:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmanning@localhost) by vacation.karoshi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA28386; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:29:04 GMT Message-Id: <200009161929.TAA28386@vacation.karoshi.com> Subject: Re: consistancy To: jtk@TITANIA.NET (Joseph T. Klein) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:29:04 +0000 (UCT) Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net In-Reply-To: <39C223C0.E77B9256@titania.net> from "Joseph T. Klein" at Sep 15, 2000 09:27:28 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > > Bill et al. > > Why not just up the anti a notch and require that all legacy address > space have working in-addr records by January 1, 2001 or that space shall > be deemed inactive and returned to the public pool. Its not quite that easy. Stanford refused transfers as does MIT (to pick on Universities), making it hard to verify. > > IANA can delegate enforcement to the registries using the address as registered. > i.e. If the address is in the ARIN region, ARIN enforces the deallocation. IANA might do many things. They have had a tough time ramping up and may not be ready to take this on quite yet. Something to do w/ recent activities on the Open Membership front and a change in board membership seems to be taking some time. Still, given the current nature of ICANN, I expect that the only inputs they will take are from the RIRs themselves. Since these are legecy delegations, I suspect that forcing folks to a predetermined registry might open the discussion space, esp. since all registries are now charging fees. I expect that the legecy delegates are going to be screwed since they were never part of the RIR process and ICANN via the ASO agreements excludes these folks. > Due to the history of the Internet this is primarily a North American issue. Not really. There is significant European presence. > Small organizations requiring multi-homing could then hopefully get space from > the legacy "swamp" allocations retrieved from this effort. Two key words here. "Hopefully" and a buck will get you coffee at Starbucks. "Swamp" - based on previous reclaimation data and the dns delegation data the "swamp" is in the 207 and 209 prefix range. Most small route injections are coming from those ranges. > I suspect large portions of the early allocations belong to defunct organizations > or have been forgotten by the rightful owners. Not really. The hardest part has been the egregious update policies in getting whois data updates. --bill From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 15:25:21 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA07516 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:23:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA07512; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:23:23 -0400 (EDT) From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Received: from vacation.karoshi.com (vacation.karoshi.com [198.32.4.20]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03191; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:23:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmanning@localhost) by vacation.karoshi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA28400; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:32:24 GMT Message-Id: <200009161932.TAA28400@vacation.karoshi.com> Subject: Re: consistancy To: brian@meganet.net (Brian Wallingford) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:32:24 +0000 (UCT) Cc: drechsau@geeks.org (Mike Horwath), woolf@ISI.EDU (Suzanne Woolf), ahp@hilander.com (Alec H. Peterson), mury@goldengate.net (Mury), mbailey@journey.net (Matt Bailey), arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net In-Reply-To: from "Brian Wallingford" at Sep 15, 2000 10:00:56 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > : outrageously large blocks? Why wasn't this corrected long ago, before > : "newbies" like myself started bitching? :) Why are we faced with this > : artificial address shortage? > > A clarification - I'm simply looking for insight. Does IANA have the > *authority* to reclaim addresses, or is it simply a matter of negotiation > and good will on the part of the blocks' administrators? > > tia, > brian IMHO, IANA is the only body w/ that authority. RIRs derive their authority from IANA. LIRs and ISP derive their management authoritity/responsibilities from the RIRs that delegate them address space. --bill From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 15:28:17 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA07732 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:26:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA07718; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:26:31 -0400 (EDT) From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Received: from vacation.karoshi.com (vacation.karoshi.com [198.32.4.20]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26533; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:26:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmanning@localhost) by vacation.karoshi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA28424; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:35:55 GMT Message-Id: <200009161935.TAA28424@vacation.karoshi.com> Subject: Re: consistancy To: drechsau@geeks.org (Mike Horwath) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:35:54 +0000 (UCT) Cc: stephen.griffin@rcn.com (Stephen Griffin), arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net In-Reply-To: <20000916102120.A40875@Geeks.ORG> from "Mike Horwath" at Sep 16, 2000 10:21:20 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > I have a new school connecting to us early next week with a /16 for a > campus of under 10K students. :( > > There has to be a way to reclaim them! There is. Check the fine RFC. When there is a fundamental -technical- requirement to get the space back, it can be reclaimed. THe current problem is not technical but political. > Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG --bill From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 17:03:17 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA14947 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:00:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA14644; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:57:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06060; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:57:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13aP17-00054z-00; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:56:57 -0600 Message-ID: <39C3DE98.B3D34246@hilander.com> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:56:56 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antonio Querubin CC: hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Antonio Querubin wrote: > > Would you accept the fact that many of us on the receiving end of the > latter look on the lack of attention paid to the former as reducing ARIN > et al credibility and leadership? Lose that credibility and you'll have a > hard time convincing the rest of the membership to do anything else. First of all, ARIN is very interested in reclaiming IP space, where it can do so. The issue is far more complicated than you may think, primarily because of the fact that ARIN does not have the authority to revoke allocations that it did not make. This is the primary point people seem to be missing. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 17:03:56 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA15051 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:02:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA14779; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:58:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06681; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:58:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13aP2o-00057g-00; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:58:42 -0600 Message-ID: <39C3DF02.F282C87F@hilander.com> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:58:42 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Scott CC: hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Charles Scott wrote: > > Alec: > Agreed. Reclaiming IP space and efficient use of new allocations are > certainly not mutually exclusive, Similarly, the aggrigate preasure on IP > address space affects both discussions and their outcome. Also, the > outcome of both will affect the aggrigate preasure on IP address space. > They are therefore intimately interwoven. > I think however, that there is also a matter of balance. It appears that > many in this discussion have a hard time accepting the idea that address > space that's currently in productive use, however inefficiently, is more, > or even equally, worth trying to reclaim than address space that is > currently serving no usefull purpose whatsoever or is grossly in contrast > with conservation. It is certainly the impression of this imbalance that > is making it difficult for ARIN to deploy this policy. Until such time as > all address space falls under the same level of scrutiny, it's unlikely > that those providing Web hosting services, the very content of the > Internet, will be convinced to expend considerable work and funds to > essentially change the way they do business. If you know of a way to make this happen, then by all means please share it with us. However, continuing to argue why ARIN is not reclaiming allocations is not productive, since the plain and simple fact is that ARIN does not have the authority to reclaim allocations that it did not make. If you think that ARIN should have this authority, then by all means start petitioning IANA/ICANN to that end. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 17:05:13 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA15298 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:03:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA14911; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:00:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA07221; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:00:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13aP43-00059v-00; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:59:59 -0600 Message-ID: <39C3DF4F.BA4C9650@hilander.com> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:59:59 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Horwath CC: hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: <39C39C7A.CD6398A0@hilander.com> <20000916130637.A87352@Geeks.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Mike Horwath wrote: > > I don't think anyone is arguing about not trying to be more efficient > at all and that these are completely exclusive of each other and can > be done in parallel. However people do seem to be using the fact that ARIN is not revoking allocations made before its time to various institutions as a reason for repealing the virtual hosting policy. Personally I think there are plenty of other objections about the virtual hosting policy, which is why I am confused as to why so many people are insisting ARIN do something it has no authority to do. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 17:22:20 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA17424 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:20:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA17401; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:20:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.ens.net (mail.ens.net [204.248.18.100]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05205; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:20:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [204.248.18.99] by mail.ens.net (NTMail 5.06.0014/NS0001.00.7a34c6c8) with ESMTP id lulqgaaa for arin-discuss@arin.net; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:19:06 -0500 Message-ID: <39C3E2BE.D9B3D9F0@ens.net> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:14:38 -0500 From: Steve Larson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alec H. Peterson" CC: Antonio Querubin , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: <39C3DE98.B3D34246@hilander.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Does any of this discussion even matter? By the time you people finish the pathetic diatribe, IP telephony will just start to kick in. When this happens (since both Cisco and Lucent have their products available, and BILLIONS of dollars are being spent to make it happen...), the ONLY thing that will save us is the conversion to IP6. THERE WILL BE NO MORE SPACE, NO MATTER HOW STINGY OR STUPID YOU GET WITH THE IP4 SPACE. Lets all hope that real movement occures on the IP6 definition.... Steve "Alec H. Peterson" wrote: > Antonio Querubin wrote: > > > > Would you accept the fact that many of us on the receiving end of the > > latter look on the lack of attention paid to the former as reducing ARIN > > et al credibility and leadership? Lose that credibility and you'll have a > > hard time convincing the rest of the membership to do anything else. > > First of all, ARIN is very interested in reclaiming IP space, where it can > do so. The issue is far more complicated than you may think, primarily > because of the fact that ARIN does not have the authority to revoke > allocations that it did not make. This is the primary point people seem to > be missing. > > Alec > > -- > Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com > Staff Scientist > CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com > "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 18:08:18 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA21718 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:06:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA21714 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:06:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tcb.net (tcb.net [205.168.100.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA03943 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:06:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sofos.tcb.net (sofos.tcb.net [127.0.0.1]) by tcb.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06132 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:06:15 -0600 Message-Id: <200009162206.QAA06132@tcb.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.3 To: arin-discuss@arin.net From: Danny McPherson Reply-To: danny@tcb.net Subject: draft-mcpherson-vlan-ipagg-00.txt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:06:15 -0600 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR This should be posted to the IETF ID sometime next week. It's still in pretty rough form but comments are welcome. http://www.tcb.net/tcb/draft-mcpherson-vlan-ipagg-00.txt Thanks! -danny From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 18:08:20 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA21764 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:06:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA21760; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:06:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05939; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:06:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26637; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:58:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:06:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: "Alec H. Peterson" cc: Charles Scott , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: <39C3DF02.F282C87F@hilander.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > If you know of a way to make this happen, then by all means please share it > with us. > > However, continuing to argue why ARIN is not reclaiming allocations is not > productive, since the plain and simple fact is that ARIN does not have the > authority to reclaim allocations that it did not make. If you think that > ARIN should have this authority, then by all means start petitioning > IANA/ICANN to that end. > > Alec Alec, No offense to you personally with these questions, but I've been told I am not qualified to act as any sort of "spokesperson" for the ARIN membership, and that I'm an idiot for asking for the list of legacy space contacts. So my questions are: Is it appropriate for me to "petition IANA/ICANN" essentially on behalf of ARIN? If so, is there a standard format and contact to whom I should be placing my suggestions? Mury From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 18:16:06 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA23095 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:14:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA22521; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:11:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08217; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:11:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13aQ9d-00071i-00; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:09:49 -0600 Message-ID: <39C3EFAC.146AF3A2@hilander.com> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:09:48 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mury CC: Charles Scott , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Mury wrote: > > No offense to you personally with these questions, but I've been told I am > not qualified to act as any sort of "spokesperson" for the ARIN > membership, and that I'm an idiot for asking for the list of legacy space > contacts. > > So my questions are: > > Is it appropriate for me to "petition IANA/ICANN" essentially on behalf of > ARIN? No, but it would be appropriate for you to petition ICANN/IANA as a concerned user of address space (and perhaps an ARIN member, although I don't know offhand if you are) to either take it upon themselves to reclaim address space or delegate authority to do so appropriately (ie, to the RIRs). Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 20:28:36 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA01644 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:25:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA01640; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:25:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns.shawneelink.net (ns.shawneelink.net [216.240.66.11]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA24403; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:25:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns.shawneelink.net (ns.shawneelink.net [216.240.66.11]) by ns.shawneelink.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8H0Pe920072; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:25:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:25:40 -0500 (CDT) From: J Bacher X-Sender: jb@ns.shawneelink.net To: arin-discuss@arin.net cc: ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > > However, you all must accept the fact that reclaiming IP space and more > > efficient use of new IP allocations are not mutually exclusive. They are in > > fact separate discussions, and decisions on whether to do one will not > > affect the other. > > > > Alec > > Alec: > Agreed. Reclaiming IP space and efficient use of new allocations are > certainly not mutually exclusive, Similarly, the aggrigate preasure on IP > address space affects both discussions and their outcome. Also, the > outcome of both will affect the aggrigate preasure on IP address space. > They are therefore intimately interwoven. Please. ARIN did not choose to enforce a virtual webserver model because it was either bored or there was no concern over available allocation. "Efficient use" was redefined for a reason. The only issue is whether reclaiming space is a viability and whether ARIN gave sufficient consideration to the ramifications of enforcing this new policy. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sat Sep 16 21:57:40 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA05486 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:53:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA05475; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:53:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gaslightmedia.com (harbor.gaslightmedia.com [208.171.24.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA19541; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:53:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from harbor.gaslightmedia.com (harbor.gaslightmedia.com [208.171.24.1]) by gaslightmedia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA21538; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:53:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:53:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Scott To: J Bacher cc: arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR j: I dont' think anyone is accusing any party of being frivolous or arbitrary. And, I do think we'll all survive the current policy, even if it does result in significant extra work to achieve compliance or present a case for an exception. My point, however, was that you can no more isolate the perception of imbalance from the new policy than you can the need for conservation from the recognition that there are vast unused address blocks. And like it or not, I think that perception relevant. If the only result of this discussion is that there is a greater recognition of imbalance, then I think it's served the original purpose of those who started it. And if from that recognition there is resulting action to work the greater problem, then I think we've exceeded our expectations, even if that action can't necessarily take place within the confines of ARIN. Chuck Scott Gaslight Media On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, J Bacher wrote: > > > > > However, you all must accept the fact that reclaiming IP space and more > > > efficient use of new IP allocations are not mutually exclusive. They are in > > > fact separate discussions, and decisions on whether to do one will not > > > affect the other. > > > > > > Alec > > > > Alec: > > Agreed. Reclaiming IP space and efficient use of new allocations are > > certainly not mutually exclusive, Similarly, the aggrigate preasure on IP > > address space affects both discussions and their outcome. Also, the > > outcome of both will affect the aggrigate preasure on IP address space. > > They are therefore intimately interwoven. > > Please. ARIN did not choose to enforce a virtual webserver model because > it was either bored or there was no concern over available allocation. > > "Efficient use" was redefined for a reason. The only issue is whether > reclaiming space is a viability and whether ARIN gave sufficient > consideration to the ramifications of enforcing this new policy. > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 11:14:31 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA02230 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:11:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA02226; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:11:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns.shawneelink.net (ns.shawneelink.net [216.240.66.11]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04980; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:11:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns.shawneelink.net (ns.shawneelink.net [216.240.66.11]) by ns.shawneelink.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8HFBS922375; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:11:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:11:28 -0500 (CDT) From: J Bacher X-Sender: jb@ns.shawneelink.net To: Charles Scott cc: arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > I dont' think anyone is accusing any party of being frivolous or > arbitrary. Read my post again. You have misunderstood it. > My point, however, was that you can no more isolate the perception of > imbalance from the new policy than you can the need for conservation from > the recognition that there are vast unused address blocks. And like it or To say that one issue does not impact, directly or indirectly, the other issue would be incorrect. I really can't determine which post you are replying to since it does not address the one that I wrote. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 11:28:56 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA02684 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:26:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA02680 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:26:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15740 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:26:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 0A5783DD3; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:26:32 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:26:31 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Cc: "Joseph T. Klein" , arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000917102631.A25627@Geeks.ORG> References: <39C223C0.E77B9256@titania.net> <200009161929.TAA28386@vacation.karoshi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009161929.TAA28386@vacation.karoshi.com>; from bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 07:29:04PM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 07:29:04PM +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > "Swamp" - based on previous reclaimation data and the > dns delegation data > the "swamp" is in the 207 and 209 prefix range. Most small > route injections are coming from those ranges. I don't see any proof in that URL or any of the links at the end that show that 207 and 209 prefixes are more swampy than the old swamp. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 11:30:53 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA02772 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:29:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA02761; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:29:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17542; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:29:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id CB3693DD3; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:29:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:29:00 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mike Horwath , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000917102900.B25627@Geeks.ORG> References: <39C39C7A.CD6398A0@hilander.com> <20000916130637.A87352@Geeks.ORG> <39C3DF4F.BA4C9650@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39C3DF4F.BA4C9650@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 02:59:59PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 02:59:59PM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Mike Horwath wrote: > > > > I don't think anyone is arguing about not trying to be more efficient > > at all and that these are completely exclusive of each other and can > > be done in parallel. > > However people do seem to be using the fact that ARIN is not > revoking allocations made before its time to various institutions as > a reason for repealing the virtual hosting policy. Who has done so? I'll spank'em. I do cry 'unfair', though. > Personally I think there are plenty of other objections about the > virtual hosting policy, which is why I am confused as to why so many > people are insisting ARIN do something it has no authority to do. Oh, but it does have some authority, this is a large difference of opinion we seem to be having. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 11:32:49 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA02927 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:31:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA02916; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:31:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA16500; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:31:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id C63C83DD3; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:31:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:31:00 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mury , Charles Scott , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000917103100.C25627@Geeks.ORG> References: <39C3EFAC.146AF3A2@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39C3EFAC.146AF3A2@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:09:48PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:09:48PM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > No, but it would be appropriate for you to petition ICANN/IANA as a > concerned user of address space (and perhaps an ARIN member, although I > don't know offhand if you are) to either take it upon themselves to reclaim > address space or delegate authority to do so appropriately (ie, to the > RIRs). But, if you have space allocated at any time in the last few years...doesn't that make you an ARIN member by default? Or is this a game, like the days of the old MRNet where the 'customers' are members but are as powerless as customers? -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 11:34:59 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA03080 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:33:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA02953; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA16669; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:31:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13agP5-0001ma-00; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:30:51 -0600 Message-ID: <39C4E3AB.2A7EC7F8@hilander.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:30:51 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Horwath CC: hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: <39C39C7A.CD6398A0@hilander.com> <20000916130637.A87352@Geeks.ORG> <39C3DF4F.BA4C9650@hilander.com> <20000917102900.B25627@Geeks.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Mike Horwath wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 02:59:59PM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > > Mike Horwath wrote: > > > > > > I don't think anyone is arguing about not trying to be more efficient > > > at all and that these are completely exclusive of each other and can > > > be done in parallel. > > > > However people do seem to be using the fact that ARIN is not > > revoking allocations made before its time to various institutions as > > a reason for repealing the virtual hosting policy. > > Who has done so? > > I'll spank'em. > > I do cry 'unfair', though. > > > Personally I think there are plenty of other objections about the > > virtual hosting policy, which is why I am confused as to why so many > > people are insisting ARIN do something it has no authority to do. > > Oh, but it does have some authority, this is a large difference of > opinion we seem to be having. Oh certainly, it does have some authority. It has authority over CURRENT allocation policy in its region of the world. One of the things the AC (and thus the membership later on) will be discussing is how ARIN can reclaim allocations that it has made in the past. That's a good first step towards reclamation of other allocations in the future (once some sort of standard has been established). We can't promise anything, but please know ARIN is concerned about it and is trying to help. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 11:36:40 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA03345 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:34:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA03129; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:33:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20522; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:33:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13agQy-0001oJ-00; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:32:48 -0600 Message-ID: <39C4E420.8E0A9DB@hilander.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:32:48 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Horwath CC: Mury , Charles Scott , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: <39C3EFAC.146AF3A2@hilander.com> <20000917103100.C25627@Geeks.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Mike Horwath wrote: > > But, if you have space allocated at any time in the last few > years...doesn't that make you an ARIN member by default? > > Or is this a game, like the days of the old MRNet where the > 'customers' are members but are as powerless as customers? I'm not quite sure what you're getting at, but I'll tell you how membership works. Every year that an entity gets address space from ARIN they pay ARIN an allocation fee. That fee includes membership. So if an entity does not get address space in a given year, then they are not (automatically) a member. However they are free to pay the $500 per year fee to become a member. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 11:38:41 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA03567 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:36:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA03551; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:36:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18879; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:36:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 9AD283DD3; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:36:52 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:36:52 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mike Horwath , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000917103652.D25627@Geeks.ORG> References: <39C39C7A.CD6398A0@hilander.com> <20000916130637.A87352@Geeks.ORG> <39C3DF4F.BA4C9650@hilander.com> <20000917102900.B25627@Geeks.ORG> <39C4E3AB.2A7EC7F8@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39C4E3AB.2A7EC7F8@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:30:51AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:30:51AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > One of the things the AC (and thus the membership later on) will be > discussing is how ARIN can reclaim allocations that it has made in > the past. That's a good first step towards reclamation of other > allocations in the future (once some sort of standard has been > established). We can't promise anything, but please know ARIN is > concerned about it and is trying to help. As a 'member' (and I damn well had better be one for the amount of money I pay to 'manage' my IP space!), I suggest that ARIN spend more time reclaiming IP addresses from classical allocation wastage than spending time on how to change policies to further efficiency without doing such. Does that make sense? The problem of IP wastage in the classical allocations is a far bigger problem than some companies using IPs for virtual hosting. I think that more effort should be put into reclamation of such. No more policies on how to be more efficient until there is a way to start reclaiming the old space as from my point of view (and the point of view of many others who have started posting) - this is unfair to have different standards applied. And that is all :) -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 11:44:54 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA04171 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:42:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA04160; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:42:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sphinx.druber.com (sphinx.druber.com [216.129.139.105]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA27408; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:42:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from commuter.druber.com (commuter.druber.com [216.129.139.100]) by sphinx.druber.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1EA3F7B; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:42:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000917114138.00b275b0@216.129.139.99> X-Sender: dswartz@216.129.139.99 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:42:44 -0400 To: Mike Horwath , "Alec H. Peterson" From: Dan Swartzendruber Subject: Re: consistancy Cc: Mike Horwath , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net In-Reply-To: <20000917103652.D25627@Geeks.ORG> References: <39C4E3AB.2A7EC7F8@hilander.com> <39C39C7A.CD6398A0@hilander.com> <20000916130637.A87352@Geeks.ORG> <39C3DF4F.BA4C9650@hilander.com> <20000917102900.B25627@Geeks.ORG> <39C4E3AB.2A7EC7F8@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR At 10:36 AM 9/17/00 -0500, Mike Horwath wrote: >No more policies on how to be more efficient until there is a way to >start reclaiming the old space as from my point of view (and the point >of view of many others who have started posting) - this is unfair to >have different standards applied. I agree. And even if ARIN doesn't have authoritiy over some of the biggest offenders, as someone else hinted at earlier upthread, if everyone else starts blackholing their routes, I bet that might get some cooperation. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 11:45:09 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA04207 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:43:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA04196; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:43:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jacobs.Geeks.ORG (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [209.98.1.1]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA27781; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:43:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jacobs.Geeks.ORG (Postfix, from userid 400) id 911E63DD3; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:43:17 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:43:17 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Alec H. Peterson" Cc: Mike Horwath , Mury , Charles Scott , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy Message-ID: <20000917104317.E25627@Geeks.ORG> References: <39C3EFAC.146AF3A2@hilander.com> <20000917103100.C25627@Geeks.ORG> <39C4E420.8E0A9DB@hilander.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39C4E420.8E0A9DB@hilander.com>; from ahp@hilander.com on Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:32:48AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:32:48AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Every year that an entity gets address space from ARIN they pay ARIN > an allocation fee. That fee includes membership. So if an entity > does not get address space in a given year, then they are not > (automatically) a member. However they are free to pay the $500 per > year fee to become a member. So...that fee I pay every year for said address space does not keep me a member during the 'year' I don't get more address space? To quote: Membership with ARIN is open to any individual or entity and is offered regardless of whether the entity receives address space directly from ARIN. Subscription customers -- i.e. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that are allocated IP addresses from ARIN -- are extended membership at no additional cost to their subscription fee. Organizations that are not subscription customers are invited to join ARIN and are charged an annual membership fee of $500. So, the statement that Mury may not be a member would be wrong :) By default, any ISP with direct allocation from ARIN is a member according to what I read above. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau@Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 11:49:07 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA04545 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:47:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA04364; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:45:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29387; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:45:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13agd5-0001qs-00; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:45:19 -0600 Message-ID: <39C4E70E.6E7E32F@hilander.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:45:18 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Horwath CC: Mury , Charles Scott , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: <39C3EFAC.146AF3A2@hilander.com> <20000917103100.C25627@Geeks.ORG> <39C4E420.8E0A9DB@hilander.com> <20000917104317.E25627@Geeks.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Mike Horwath wrote: > > So...that fee I pay every year for said address space does not keep me > a member during the 'year' I don't get more address space? > > To quote: > > Membership with ARIN is open to any individual or entity and > is offered regardless of whether the entity receives address > space directly from ARIN. Subscription customers -- > i.e. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that are allocated IP > addresses from ARIN -- are extended membership at no > additional cost to their subscription fee. Organizations that > are not subscription customers are invited to join ARIN and > are charged an annual membership fee of $500. > > So, the statement that Mury may not be a member would be wrong :) > > By default, any ISP with direct allocation from ARIN is a member > according to what I read above. Then perhaps I misunderstand how the fee schedule works, hopefully one of the ARIN staff can correct me. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 13:50:31 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA07097 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:48:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA07093; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:48:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA12124; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:48:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02222; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 12:40:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 12:47:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: "Alec H. Peterson" cc: Charles Scott , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: <39C3EFAC.146AF3A2@hilander.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR This might sound like nit-picking, but I think it's an important issue to figure out before I "petition" IANA/ICANN with the below request. Does ARIN want to be given authority to oversee those blocks? I certainly don't want to ask for something to be given to ARIN that ARIN doesn't want. Perhaps if the AC, the membership, or whoever needs to, can decide on that first, then ARIN as well as concerned individuals can approach IANA/ICANN with the suggestion/request. If ARIN doesn't want the be given that authority, then as a concerned Internet citizen I'll ask them to do it themselves. While it seems that the RIRs are all setup to be able to deal with the process for accounting for legacy space, maybe a new ASO (Since it probably isn't regional) should be created for dealing with the unique issues that reclaiming will probably have. So, should ARIN (RIRs) have the authority and does it want it? Mury Side note: Can someone tell me how much of the legacy space would fall under ARIN's region? On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > Mury wrote: > > > > No offense to you personally with these questions, but I've been told I am > > not qualified to act as any sort of "spokesperson" for the ARIN > > membership, and that I'm an idiot for asking for the list of legacy space > > contacts. > > > > So my questions are: > > > > Is it appropriate for me to "petition IANA/ICANN" essentially on behalf of > > ARIN? > > No, but it would be appropriate for you to petition ICANN/IANA as a > concerned user of address space (and perhaps an ARIN member, although I > don't know offhand if you are) to either take it upon themselves to reclaim > address space or delegate authority to do so appropriately (ie, to the > RIRs). > > Alec > > -- > Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com > Staff Scientist > CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com > "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 13:57:44 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA07440 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:55:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA07436; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:55:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from newdev.harvard.edu (newdev.eecs.harvard.edu [140.247.60.212]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15620; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:55:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from sob@localhost) by newdev.harvard.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA13078; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:55:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:55:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott Bradner Message-Id: <200009171755.NAA13078@newdev.harvard.edu> To: ahp@hilander.com, mury@goldengate.net Subject: Re: consistancy Cc: arin-discuss@arin.net, cscott@gaslightmedia.com, hostmaster@raha.com, ppml@arin.net Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR > This might sound like nit-picking, but I think it's an important issue to > figure out before I "petition" IANA/ICANN with the below request. Does > ARIN want to be given authority to oversee those blocks? I certainly > don't want to ask for something to be given to ARIN that ARIN doesn't > want. note that not everyone agrees with Bill's characterization of the current state Scott From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 13:58:22 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA07459 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:56:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA07386; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:54:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ramirez.hilander.com (ramirez.hilander.com [216.241.32.34]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09606; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:54:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gathering.hilander.com ([216.241.32.50] helo=hilander.com) by ramirez.hilander.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #6) id 13aie4-0002Kp-00; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:54:28 -0600 Message-ID: <39C50553.A48746D3@hilander.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:54:27 -0600 From: "Alec H. Peterson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mury CC: Charles Scott , hostmaster@raha.com, arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Mury wrote: > > This might sound like nit-picking, but I think it's an important issue to > figure out before I "petition" IANA/ICANN with the below request. Does > ARIN want to be given authority to oversee those blocks? I certainly > don't want to ask for something to be given to ARIN that ARIN doesn't > want. > > Perhaps if the AC, the membership, or whoever needs to, can decide on that > first, then ARIN as well as concerned individuals can approach IANA/ICANN > with the suggestion/request. > > If ARIN doesn't want the be given that authority, then as a concerned > Internet citizen I'll ask them to do it themselves. While it seems that > the RIRs are all setup to be able to deal with the process for accounting > for legacy space, maybe a new ASO (Since it probably isn't regional) > should be created for dealing with the unique issues that reclaiming will > probably have. > > So, should ARIN (RIRs) have the authority and does it want it? That's actually a very good question, and one that should certainly be discussed by various involved parties (membership, AC and the BoT), since it such reclamation will consume ARIN resources. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com Staff Scientist CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 14:05:46 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA08056 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:03:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA08045; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:03:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.raha.com (mail.raha.com [196.41.32.2]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12699; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:03:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from eyeball (ws041.startelecom.net [196.41.41.41]) by mail.raha.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 633-67771U5000L500S0V35) with SMTP id com; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:03:30 +0300 Reply-To: From: "Hostmaster" To: "Brian Wallingford" , "Steve Larson" Cc: "Alec H. Peterson" , "Antonio Querubin" , , , Subject: RE: consistancy Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:03:30 +0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-reply-to: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR My goodness... guys, this is getting silly... Now we're getting duplicate and triplicate copies of everything because of all these blasted cc's... I know, I know... I just made it worse by doing the same... but... Since the thread started on arin-discuss and the discussions are not private, can I respectfully suggest we refrain from hitting 'reply to all' and post only on the discuss list for a while... regards Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Wallingford [mailto:brian@meganet.net] > Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 2:24 AM > To: Steve Larson > Cc: Alec H. Peterson; Antonio Querubin; hostmaster@raha.com; > arin-discuss@arin.net; ppml@arin.net > Subject: Re: consistancy From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Sun Sep 17 14:54:29 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA09093 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:51:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA09088; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:51:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA15048; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:51:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03060; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:44:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:51:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: arin-discuss@arin.net cc: ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Hold the fort! I've taken some time to try to understand the authority and the role of ARIN in relation to ICANN instead of taking some people's word for it. Here is a summary of what I found on ICANN's site. I have pasted the text from http://www.aso.icann.org/docs/aso-mou.html further down as a reference. 1) The ICANN bylaws assign to the ASO (which ARIN is) the responsibility for the development of global policies relating to the definition of global policies for the distribution and registration of Internet address space (currently IPv4 and IPv6); 2) Normally, proposals for global policies within the area of the ASO's responsibility will be developed within the RIRs and forwarded to the Address Council for their consideration. 3) In addition the Address Council may accept, for consideration, proposals for changes to global IP address policy from any interested individual or entity. Doesn't this sound like it is ARIN's responsibilty to develop policies and not ICANNs? It sure reads like ICANN has given ARIN not just the authority, but the responsibility to create *global* policies for registration of address space. There are no conditions listed, no exceptions. What am I not understanding? Unless I'm badly mistaken in my understanding of a RIR's role as defined by ICANN, I would like to suggest that ARIN and it's decision making bodies consider creating policies for reclaiming largely unused legacy address space. What I do not know is if this has already been done and rejected by ICANN. If so, I would like to see copies of the rejection so I can approach ICANN as a concerned citizen. Thank you. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------- (4) Duties of the Address Council. (a) Advisory Role. The Address Council will advise the Board of ICANN on matters referred to the Address Council by the ICANN Board. (b) Policy Development. The ICANN bylaws assign to the ASO the responsibility for the development of global policies relating to the following areas: (i) Definition of global policies for the distribution and registration of Internet address space (currently IPv4 and IPv6); (ii) Definition of global policies for the distribution and registration of identifiers used in Internet inter-domain routing (currently BGP autonomous system numbers); and (iii) Definition of global policies concerning the part of the DNS name space which is derived from the Internet address space and the inter-domain routing identifiers (currently in-addr.arpa and ip6.int). Normally, proposals for global policies within the area of the ASO's responsibility will be developed within the RIRs and forwarded to the Address Council for their consideration. In special circumstances the ICANN board can forward a request to develop a new global policy or to review an existing global policy within the area of the ASO's responsibility to the Address Council. In addition the Address Council may accept, for consideration, proposals for changes to global IP address policy from any interested individual or entity. In all cases when the Address Council reviews a proposal for new global policies or a proposed modification to existing policies in this area it will first solicit the opinions of all of the RIR signatories of the MOU and of the public. The Address Council will weigh the results of these solicitations in its deliberations to determine if it will approve the proposal. At least two thirds of the members of the Address Council must support a proposal for the proposal to be accepted and forwarded to the ICANN board for its consideration. In any case where the ICANN board has requested that the Address Council develop a new policy within the area of the ASO's responsibility, the Address Council will forward that request to the RIR signatories of the MOU. The RIRs will then be given a reasonable time to propose policies to address the request from ICANN. Any resulting policy will be evaluated as described above. If an RIR decides, after reviewing the request, that the request is unreasonable, it can report that opinion to the Address Council. If the Address Council, after reviewing the responses, decides that the request is unreasonable or inadvisable, it can report that opinion to the ICANN board along with the reasons that the Address Council reached that conclusion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Mury wrote: > > This might sound like nit-picking, but I think it's an important issue to > figure out before I "petition" IANA/ICANN with the below request. Does > ARIN want to be given authority to oversee those blocks? I certainly > don't want to ask for something to be given to ARIN that ARIN doesn't > want. > > Perhaps if the AC, the membership, or whoever needs to, can decide on that > first, then ARIN as well as concerned individuals can approach IANA/ICANN > with the suggestion/request. > > If ARIN doesn't want the be given that authority, then as a concerned > Internet citizen I'll ask them to do it themselves. While it seems that > the RIRs are all setup to be able to deal with the process for accounting > for legacy space, maybe a new ASO (Since it probably isn't regional) > should be created for dealing with the unique issues that reclaiming will > probably have. > > So, should ARIN (RIRs) have the authority and does it want it? > > Mury > > Side note: Can someone tell me how much of the legacy space would fall > under ARIN's region? > > > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > > > Mury wrote: > > > > > > No offense to you personally with these questions, but I've been told I am > > > not qualified to act as any sort of "spokesperson" for the ARIN > > > membership, and that I'm an idiot for asking for the list of legacy space > > > contacts. > > > > > > So my questions are: > > > > > > Is it appropriate for me to "petition IANA/ICANN" essentially on behalf of > > > ARIN? > > > > No, but it would be appropriate for you to petition ICANN/IANA as a > > concerned user of address space (and perhaps an ARIN member, although I > > don't know offhand if you are) to either take it upon themselves to reclaim > > address space or delegate authority to do so appropriately (ie, to the > > RIRs). > > > > Alec > > > > -- > > Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com > > Staff Scientist > > CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com > > "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" > > > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 18 00:12:38 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id AAA03256 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:05:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id AAA03251; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:05:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.texoma.net (smtp.texoma.net [209.151.96.5]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA14332; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:05:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pw5100a.texoma.net (pw5100a.texoma.net [209.151.107.251]) by smtp.texoma.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8I45B932489; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:05:11 -0500 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20000917225101.02602158@mail.texoma.net> X-Sender: ldvhomeu@mail.texoma.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:05:00 -0500 To: arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net From: Larry Vaden Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: <39C3DF4F.BA4C9650@hilander.com> References: <39C39C7A.CD6398A0@hilander.com> <20000916130637.A87352@Geeks.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR At 02:59 PM 9/16/2000 -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote: >However people do seem to be using the fact that ARIN is not revoking >allocations made before its time to various institutions as a reason for >repealing the virtual hosting policy. > >Personally I think there are plenty of other objections about the virtual >hosting policy, which is why I am confused as to why so many people are >insisting ARIN do something it has no authority to do. Q: It seems to me that ARIN is stepping over a dollar to pick up a dime; regardless, won't the policy result in all domains on a given IP being unreachable if someone blocks, as a result of perceived or real abuse, the single IP associated with the abusing domain, thus _at least temporarily_ denying service to legitimate customers on that same IP? I admit to ignorance about any blocking techniques which may be available for http 1.1. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 18 22:19:20 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id WAA01158 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:13:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA01154; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:13:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pox.remarque.org (pox.remarque.org [209.209.13.172]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA10568; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:13:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pox.remarque.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pox.remarque.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA22525; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:13:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009190213.TAA22525@pox.remarque.org> To: Mury cc: arin-discuss@arin.net, ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: Message from Mury of "Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:51:45 CDT." Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:13:26 -0700 From: Cathy Wittbrodt Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR You have this slightly wrong. ARIN is not the ASO. The Address Supporting Organization was formed by ICANN based on a MOU that was written by the existing regional registries. You have included most of the MOU below, but it seems that the part about the selecting the council, etc, may be missing. Under that MOU the Address Council was formed by folks nominated and elected by each of the regions. I am on the ASO AC and I have just asked to have legacy space reclaimation added to our agenda for our next meeting in October. If you would like to submit comments or items for the address council you can participate in the aso-policy list or any of the other lists (http://www.aso.icann.org/lists/) Further you can contact me directly. Thanks, ---CJ From: Mury Subject: Re: consistancy Hold the fort! I've taken some time to try to understand the authority and the role of ARIN in relation to ICANN instead of taking some people's word for it. Here is a summary of what I found on ICANN's site. I have pasted the text from http://www.aso.icann.org/docs/aso-mou.html further down as a reference. 1) The ICANN bylaws assign to the ASO (which ARIN is) the responsibility for the development of global policies relating to the definition of global policies for the distribution and registration of Internet address space (currently IPv4 and IPv6); 2) Normally, proposals for global policies within the area of the ASO's responsibility will be developed within the RIRs and forwarded to the Address Council for their consideration. 3) In addition the Address Council may accept, for consideration, proposals for changes to global IP address policy from any interested individual or entity. Doesn't this sound like it is ARIN's responsibilty to develop policies and not ICANNs? It sure reads like ICANN has given ARIN not just the authority, but the responsibility to create *global* policies for registration of address space. There are no conditions listed, no exceptions. What am I not understanding? Unless I'm badly mistaken in my understanding of a RIR's role as defined by ICANN, I would like to suggest that ARIN and it's decision making bodies consider creating policies for reclaiming largely unused legacy address space. What I do not know is if this has already been done and rejected by ICANN. If so, I would like to see copies of the rejection so I can approach ICANN as a concerned citizen. Thank you. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------- (4) Duties of the Address Council. (a) Advisory Role. The Address Council will advise the Board of ICANN on matters referred to the Address Council by the ICANN Board. (b) Policy Development. The ICANN bylaws assign to the ASO the responsibility for the development of global policies relating to the following areas: (i) Definition of global policies for the distribution and registration of Internet address space (currently IPv4 and IPv6); (ii) Definition of global policies for the distribution and registration of identifiers used in Internet inter-domain routing (currently BGP autonomous system numbers); and (iii) Definition of global policies concerning the part of the DNS name space which is derived from the Internet address space and the inter-domain routing identifiers (currently in-addr.arpa and ip6.int). Normally, proposals for global policies within the area of the ASO's responsibility will be developed within the RIRs and forwarded to the Address Council for their consideration. In special circumstances the ICANN board can forward a request to develop a new global policy or to review an existing global policy within the area of the ASO's responsibility to the Address Council. In addition the Address Council may accept, for consideration, proposals for changes to global IP address policy from any interested individual or entity. In all cases when the Address Council reviews a proposal for new global policies or a proposed modification to existing policies in this area it will first solicit the opinions of all of the RIR signatories of the MOU and of the public. The Address Council will weigh the results of these solicitations in its deliberations to determine if it will approve the proposal. At least two thirds of the members of the Address Council must support a proposal for the proposal to be accepted and forwarded to the ICANN board for its consideration. In any case where the ICANN board has requested that the Address Council develop a new policy within the area of the ASO's responsibility, the Address Council will forward that request to the RIR signatories of the MOU. The RIRs will then be given a reasonable time to propose policies to address the request from ICANN. Any resulting policy will be evaluated as described above. If an RIR decides, after reviewing the request, that the request is unreasonable, it can report that opinion to the Address Council. If the Address Council, after reviewing the responses, decides that the request is unreasonable or inadvisable, it can report that opinion to the ICANN board along with the reasons that the Address Council reached that conclusion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Mury wrote: > > This might sound like nit-picking, but I think it's an important issue to > figure out before I "petition" IANA/ICANN with the below request. Does > ARIN want to be given authority to oversee those blocks? I certainly > don't want to ask for something to be given to ARIN that ARIN doesn't > want. > > Perhaps if the AC, the membership, or whoever needs to, can decide on that > first, then ARIN as well as concerned individuals can approach IANA/ICANN > with the suggestion/request. > > If ARIN doesn't want the be given that authority, then as a concerned > Internet citizen I'll ask them to do it themselves. While it seems that > the RIRs are all setup to be able to deal with the process for accounting > for legacy space, maybe a new ASO (Since it probably isn't regional) > should be created for dealing with the unique issues that reclaiming will > probably have. > > So, should ARIN (RIRs) have the authority and does it want it? > > Mury > > Side note: Can someone tell me how much of the legacy space would fall > under ARIN's region? > > > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > > > Mury wrote: > > > > > > No offense to you personally with these questions, but I've been told I am > > > not qualified to act as any sort of "spokesperson" for the ARIN > > > membership, and that I'm an idiot for asking for the list of legacy space > > > contacts. > > > > > > So my questions are: > > > > > > Is it appropriate for me to "petition IANA/ICANN" essentially on behalf of > > > ARIN? > > > > No, but it would be appropriate for you to petition ICANN/IANA as a > > concerned user of address space (and perhaps an ARIN member, although I > > don't know offhand if you are) to either take it upon themselves to reclaim > > address space or delegate authority to do so appropriately (ie, to the > > RIRs). > > > > Alec > > > > -- > > Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com > > Staff Scientist > > CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com > > "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" > > > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Sep 18 23:07:49 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id XAA06539 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:03:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs2.arin.net (rs2.arin.net [192.149.252.22]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA06535; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:03:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flood.goldengate.net (flood.goldengate.net [209.240.87.82]) by rs2.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA15440; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:03:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dew.goldengate.net (mury@dew.goldengate.net [209.240.87.78]) by flood.goldengate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA31476; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:56:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:03:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Mury To: arin-discuss@arin.net cc: ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: consistancy In-Reply-To: <200009190213.TAA22525@pox.remarque.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR Cathy, Thank you very much. I obviously don't know all the details and issues involved with reclaiming legacy space, so I don't wish to submit any further comments other than it sure makes sense to utilize all the space available before forcing the little guy to make technological changes that he/she is ill equipted to do. Of course we should all make changes that make sense and that we can accomplish within reason. Pick up the $500 bills laying around before scaping for pennies. Even if the $500 bill belongs to the president. Thanks again. Mury GoldenGate Internet Services On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Cathy Wittbrodt wrote: > > You have this slightly wrong. ARIN is not the ASO. The Address > Supporting Organization was formed by ICANN based on a MOU that was > written by the existing regional registries. You have included most > of the MOU below, but it seems that the part about the selecting the > council, etc, may be missing. Under that MOU the Address > Council was formed by folks nominated and elected by each of the > regions. I am on the ASO AC and I have just asked to have legacy space > reclaimation added to our agenda for our next meeting in October. > If you would like to submit comments or items for the address council > you can participate in the aso-policy list or any of the other lists > (http://www.aso.icann.org/lists/) Further you can contact me directly. > > Thanks, > ---CJ > > From: Mury > Subject: Re: consistancy > > Hold the fort! > > I've taken some time to try to understand the authority and the role of > ARIN in relation to ICANN instead of taking some people's word for it. > > Here is a summary of what I found on ICANN's site. I have pasted the text > from http://www.aso.icann.org/docs/aso-mou.html further down as a > reference. > > 1) The ICANN bylaws assign to the ASO (which ARIN is) the responsibility > for the development of global policies relating to the definition of > global policies for the distribution and registration of Internet address > space (currently IPv4 and IPv6); > > 2) Normally, proposals for global policies within the area of the ASO's > responsibility will be developed within the RIRs and forwarded to the > Address Council for their consideration. > > 3) In addition the Address Council may accept, for consideration, > proposals for changes to global IP address policy from any interested > individual or entity. > > Doesn't this sound like it is ARIN's responsibilty to develop policies and > not ICANNs? It sure reads like ICANN has given ARIN not just the > authority, but the responsibility to create *global* policies for > registration of address space. There are no conditions listed, no > exceptions. > > What am I not understanding? > > Unless I'm badly mistaken in my understanding of a RIR's role as defined > by ICANN, I would like to suggest that ARIN and it's decision making > bodies consider creating policies for reclaiming largely unused legacy > address space. > > What I do not know is if this has already been done and rejected by ICANN. > If so, I would like to see copies of the rejection so I can approach ICANN > as a concerned citizen. > > Thank you. > > Mury > GoldenGate Internet Services > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > (4) Duties of the Address Council. > > (a) Advisory Role. The Address Council will advise the Board of ICANN on > matters referred to the Address Council by the ICANN Board. > > (b) Policy Development. > > The ICANN bylaws assign to the ASO the responsibility for the > development of global policies relating to the following areas: > > (i) Definition of global policies for the distribution > and registration of > Internet address space (currently IPv4 and IPv6); > > (ii) Definition of global policies for the distribution > and registration of > identifiers used in Internet inter-domain routing > (currently BGP autonomous system numbers); and > > (iii) Definition of global policies concerning the part > of the DNS name > space which is derived from the Internet address space > and the > inter-domain routing identifiers (currently in-addr.arpa > and ip6.int). > > > > Normally, proposals for global policies within the area of the ASO's > responsibility will be developed within the RIRs and forwarded to the > Address Council for their consideration. In special circumstances the > ICANN board can forward a request to develop a new global policy or to > review an existing global policy within the area of the ASO's > responsibility to the Address Council. > > In addition the Address Council may accept, for consideration, proposals > for changes to global IP address policy from any interested individual or > entity. > > In all cases when the Address Council reviews a proposal for new global > policies or a proposed modification to existing policies in this area it > will first solicit the opinions of all of the RIR signatories of the MOU > and of the public. The Address Council will weigh the results of these > solicitations in its deliberations to determine if it will approve the > proposal. At least two thirds of the members of the Address Council must > support a proposal for the proposal to be accepted and forwarded to the > ICANN board for its consideration. > > In any case where the ICANN board has requested that the Address Council > develop a new policy within the area of the ASO's responsibility, the > Address Council will forward that request to the RIR signatories of the > MOU. The RIRs will then be given a reasonable time to propose policies to > address the request from ICANN. Any resulting policy will be evaluated as > described above. If an RIR decides, after reviewing the request, that the > request is unreasonable, it can report that opinion to the Address > Council. If the Address Council, after reviewing the responses, decides > that the request is unreasonable or inadvisable, it can report that > opinion to the ICANN board along with the reasons that the Address Council > reached that conclusion. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Mury wrote: > > > > > This might sound like nit-picking, but I think it's an important issue to > > figure out before I "petition" IANA/ICANN with the below request. Does > > ARIN want to be given authority to oversee those blocks? I certainly > > don't want to ask for something to be given to ARIN that ARIN doesn't > > want. > > > > Perhaps if the AC, the membership, or whoever needs to, can decide on that > > first, then ARIN as well as concerned individuals can approach IANA/ICANN > > with the suggestion/request. > > > > If ARIN doesn't want the be given that authority, then as a concerned > > Internet citizen I'll ask them to do it themselves. While it seems that > > the RIRs are all setup to be able to deal with the process for accounting > > for legacy space, maybe a new ASO (Since it probably isn't regional) > > should be created for dealing with the unique issues that reclaiming will > > probably have. > > > > So, should ARIN (RIRs) have the authority and does it want it? > > > > Mury > > > > Side note: Can someone tell me how much of the legacy space would fall > > under ARIN's region? > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alec H. Peterson wrote: > > > > > Mury wrote: > > > > > > > > No offense to you personally with these questions, but I've been told I am > > > > not qualified to act as any sort of "spokesperson" for the ARIN > > > > membership, and that I'm an idiot for asking for the list of legacy space > > > > contacts. > > > > > > > > So my questions are: > > > > > > > > Is it appropriate for me to "petition IANA/ICANN" essentially on behalf of > > > > ARIN? > > > > > > No, but it would be appropriate for you to petition ICANN/IANA as a > > > concerned user of address space (and perhaps an ARIN member, although I > > > don't know offhand if you are) to either take it upon themselves to reclaim > > > address space or delegate authority to do so appropriately (ie, to the > > > RIRs). > > > > > > Alec > > > > > > -- > > > Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com > > > Staff Scientist > > > CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com > > > "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!" > > > > > > > > > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Oct 4 16:09:42 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA03291 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:05:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA03284 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:05:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from alabanza.com (alabanza.com [209.239.47.200]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA24140 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:05:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from baltsysadm035 (unassigned.alabanza.com [208.56.1.101] (may be forged)) by alabanza.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA24597; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:05:14 -0400 From: "Walter Dougoveto" To: Subject: IP Space Exceptions Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:08:20 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0052_01C02E1D.50B76760" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Status: OR This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0052_01C02E1D.50B76760 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I was wondering if any other hosting companies that are following this list have received or been denied exceptions when asking for IP space due to any of the following criteria: Extensive use of SSL. FTP (All of our current clients have anonymous FTP) POP3 (This would affect all of our customers) Use of these software tools along with the fact that our internal software we use for bandwidth monitoring and setting up domains is built to work on a per/IP architecture makes our business dependent on IP based domain hosting. This is not to say we are not be open to changing our software in the future (though this is a huge engineering task and would take months). The problem is that changing something like SSL is out of our hands and it will take time for the IETF to implement changes which would allow SSL to work on name based hosting. This type of situation applies to many tools/software packages. Since I have seen it mentioned in the list that use of SSL was an acceptable reason to receive an exception, I was wondering if others have also been denied exceptions on this basis. I realize that changes in this policy could occur soon due to the ARIN meeting which is ending today, but would still like to receive feedback. Sincerely, Walter Dougoveto Software Engineer Alabanza, Corp. - www.alabanza.com email : wdougoveto@alabanza.com voice : (800) 361-2682 x 5201 ------=_NextPart_000_0052_01C02E1D.50B76760 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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I was = wondering if=20 any other hosting companies that are following this list have received = or been=20 denied exceptions when asking for IP space due to any of the = following=20 criteria:
 
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FTP = (All of our=20 current clients have anonymous FTP)
POP3 = (This would=20 affect all of our customers)
 
Use of = these=20 software tools along with the fact that our internal software we use for = bandwidth monitoring and setting up domains is built to work on a per/IP = architecture makes our business dependent on IP based domain = hosting.  This=20 is not to say we are not be open to changing our software in the future = (though=20 this is a huge engineering task and would take months).  The = problem is=20 that changing something like SSL is out of our hands and it will take = time for=20 the IETF to implement changes which would allow SSL to work on name = based=20 hosting.  This type of situation applies to many tools/software=20 packages.
 
Since = I have seen it=20 mentioned in the list that use of SSL was an acceptable reason to = receive an=20 exception, I was wondering if others have also been denied exceptions on = this=20 basis. 
 
I = realize that=20 changes in this policy could occur soon due to the ARIN meeting which is = ending=20 today, but would still like to receive feedback.
 
Sincerely,
 
 
Walter Dougoveto
Software Engineer
Alabanza, Corp. - www.alabanza.com
email : wdougoveto@alabanza.com
voice : (800) 361-2682 x = 5201
 
------=_NextPart_000_0052_01C02E1D.50B76760-- From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Feb 19 15:08:37 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA20328 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:46:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA20323 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:46:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-la.station.sony.com (mail-la.station.sony.com [64.37.132.32]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA10170 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:46:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-la.station.sony.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:46:10 -0800 Message-ID: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B021A7A60@mail-la.station.sony.com> From: "Hostmaster, Verant" To: "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" Subject: renewal fees? Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:46:07 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Hey folks, It's been over 2 years since we've gotten an IP address block and ASN... and we're trying to figure out if there are supposed to be annual renewal fees? Thans for the info. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Feb 19 15:44:43 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA27965 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:29:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA27961 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:29:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp1.phx.gblx.net (smtp1.phx.gblx.net [64.208.25.103]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23745 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:29:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp1.phx.gblx.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g1JKT2Z26423; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:29:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from UNKNOWN(64.208.25.102), claiming to be "shell1.phx.gblx.net" via SMTP by smtp1, id smtpdAAAekaGMZ; Tue Feb 19 13:29:01 2002 Received: from localhost (huberman@localhost) by shell1.phx.gblx.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA28835; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:29:13 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.phx.gblx.net: huberman owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:29:13 -0700 (MST) From: David R Huberman X-X-Sender: huberman@shell1.phx.gblx.net To: "Hostmaster, Verant" cc: "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" Subject: Re: renewal fees? In-Reply-To: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B021A7A60@mail-la.station.sony.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk > It's been over 2 years since we've gotten an IP address block and ASN... and > we're trying to figure out if there are supposed to be annual renewal fees? According to: http://www.arin.net/regserv/feeschedule.html - If you received address space as an ISP, you are being billed on an annual basis based on the fee schedule chart found in section: ISP Subscriptions for Bulk IP Registrations at the above URL. - If you received address space as an end-user organization, you paid a one-time (large-ish) fee at the time of initial registration, and are theorteically billed $30.00 annually as a "maintenance fee". ARIN has a very helpful customer service desk. Call them. +1-703-227-0660. /david *--------------------------------* | Global Crossing API | | Manager, Global IP Addressing | | (703) 627-5800 | | huberman@gblx.net | *--------------------------------* From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Feb 19 16:13:35 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA03203 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:58:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA03199 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:58:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from sparta.eli.net (sparta.eli.net [207.173.0.19]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02008 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:58:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (ipadmin@localhost) by sparta.eli.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA13689; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:56:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:56:56 -0800 (PST) From: To: David R Huberman cc: "Hostmaster, Verant" , "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" Subject: Re: renewal fees? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Email billing@arin.net They can give you an update on your account to let you know if you have any past due fee's or if any are coming up. ELI IP Admin On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, David R Huberman wrote: > > > It's been over 2 years since we've gotten an IP address block and ASN... and > > we're trying to figure out if there are supposed to be annual renewal fees? > > According to: > > http://www.arin.net/regserv/feeschedule.html > > - If you received address space as an ISP, you are being billed on an > annual basis based on the fee schedule chart found in section: ISP > Subscriptions for Bulk IP Registrations at the above URL. > > - If you received address space as an end-user organization, you paid a > one-time (large-ish) fee at the time of initial registration, and are > theorteically billed $30.00 annually as a "maintenance fee". > > ARIN has a very helpful customer service desk. Call them. +1-703-227-0660. > > /david > > *--------------------------------* > | Global Crossing API | > | Manager, Global IP Addressing | > | (703) 627-5800 | > | huberman@gblx.net | > *--------------------------------* > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Tue Feb 19 16:13:36 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA03195 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:58:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA03178 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:58:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from tgosl02.terago.ca (tgosl02.terago.ca [207.54.98.194]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01981 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:58:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from calnb05 ([207.54.96.1]) by tgosl02.terago.ca (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with SMTP id ca; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:58:08 -0700 From: "Trevor Paquette" To: "'Hostmaster, Verant'" , Subject: RE: renewal fees? Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:58:09 -0700 Message-ID: <003701c1b988$23642120$0402a8c0@teraint.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <51EC05AE2DD6D111A0CF00805F6F410B021A7A60@mail-la.station.sony.com> Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Looks like ARIN needs to do some database cleanup.. Any yes.. you are right.. there should be yearly fees.. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net > [mailto:owner-arin-discuss@arin.net]On > Behalf Of Hostmaster, Verant > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 12:46 PM > To: 'arin-discuss@arin.net' > Subject: renewal fees? > > > Hey folks, > > It's been over 2 years since we've gotten an IP address block > and ASN... and > we're trying to figure out if there are supposed to be annual > renewal fees? > > Thans for the info. > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Aug 8 19:18:11 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA20370 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:06:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA20350 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:06:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from chagres.net (alderaan.chagres.net [216.223.236.235]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA07808 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 88768 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2002 23:06:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptoy) (jmbrown@chagres.net@216.223.236.249) by alderaan.chagres.net with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 8 Aug 2002 23:06:51 -0000 Reply-To: From: "John M. Brown" To: , Subject: RE: Anonymity...is it justification??? Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:04:51 -0600 Organization: Chagres Technologies, Inc Message-ID: <008601c23f30$07350310$f9ecdfd8@laptoy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by ops.arin.net id TAA20359 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk First example Bob: Would the customer beable to justify 20 contiguous /28 ? If so, then I don't think the RIR's care if they are out of different parts of your alloc's. Its your IGP, and you aren't pushing /28's to the nets BGP.. What Bob does with those addresses is between you and Bob via your contracts and AUP. That is controlled by your general business practices. If Bob or Many Bob's do things that other private networks dont like, you may see less connectivity to those other sites. Either way its not within the RIR's area of responsiblity to say. RIR's must be limited in their scope of policy. Second Example John: Does John qualify for 50 IP's ?? Can he do what he needs with 1, 10, ?? Again, thats more an internal policy rather than an external. Some companies will hand out IP's like they grew on trees, others are more conservative. If they can meet the requirements for the RIR's allocation, thats all they need to worry about. Its not the RIR's policy to generally control this directly. A RIR can affect a certain amount of control by not issuing an allocation in the future if the requester has been wasteful. Third Example, Random IP. The technology is called DialUp :) or DSL with DHCP.... Sorry, I don't see the need to be so obfusticated, at the network layer at least.. john brown > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ppml@arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml@arin.net] On > Behalf Of Jill Kulpinski > Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 4:43 PM > To: ppml@arin.net; arin-discuss@arin.net > Subject: Anonymity...is it justification??? > Importance: High > > > > > Hello, > > We have had a few cases over the past few months that I > would like to > > make sure I understand ARIN's policy regarding. I would > also like to > > hear the opinions of the community. > > > > Bob wants address space, say 20 /28s that are as > 'non-contiguous' as > > possible (ideal is unique first octet #, lesser preference > is unique > > in second octet, etc.) in order to 'mask' themselves from > the person > > they are querying so the recipient can not block out a range of > > address space and evade Bob. Bob is performing what would be > > considered 'good spam' but I do not think that it is necessarily my > > call to be the internet ethics board regarding good and bad > queries. > > If this uniqueness is required for Bob to be successful as an > > enterprise...they are technically justified as there is not > currently > > a better means of appearing random...does the Hosting Provider have > > justification in assignment of non-contiguous space? > > > > John has a server that he wants to appear to other people as 50 > > servers and therefore he want 50 addresses for one physical > device. > > He is trying to access URLs that his users have > specifically requested > > to be signed up for (i.e. newsletter type deals), but with > the amount > > of mail John sends on behalf of his Customers from one IP to these > > sites, the site may block the IP from the mass mailings. Does the > > Hosting Provider allow multiple addresses per one physical > server to > > assist in the distribution of mail by not flooding a site with > > thousands of queries from one address? > > > > So, is the requirement from a business perspective to mask one's > > address through IP randomization of different forms appropriate to > > accept? I am having a hard time knowing where to draw the line at > > saying 'nope...not good justification'. I get the response from > > Prospects that they can not do business without being able > to appear > > anonymous and I do not necessarily feel okay with then telling them > > good-bye or recommending a different business. We have > been working > > to come up with alternative options for these Customers, > but then it > > gets to the point of almost designing their network > architecture and > > systems which was not the aim. Does the community have any > > suggestions on technology available that can provide anonymity > > without using a mass amount or dis-contiguous addresses? > What are the > > thoughts regarding this idea for justification of address > space? Is > > there an ARIN policy that applies at this time? If not, do > we need to > > develop one? > > > > Any input (constructive please) would be helpful and thanks > for your > > time. Jill Kulpinski > > > > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Fri Aug 9 13:38:59 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA12858 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:25:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rs1.arin.net (rs1.arin.net [192.149.252.21]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA12847; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:25:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sparta.eli.net (sparta.eli.net [207.173.0.19]) by rs1.arin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05046; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:25:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ipadmin@localhost) by sparta.eli.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA17606; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:21:41 -0700 (PDT) From: To: "John M. Brown" cc: ppml@arin.net, arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: RE: Anonymity...is it justification??? In-Reply-To: <008601c23f30$07350310$f9ecdfd8@laptoy> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Here's how we work it: 1. Assignments are handed out if justified. 2. The only justification I find for makeing seperate IP assignments out of seperate blocks is if there is a routing issue or equipment problem that requires seperate assignments. This is rare and when it has come around I make them send me a detailed outline of their network explaining why. 3. SPAM is SPAM. If they are sending out mail to people that did not request it they are spamming. If they have a problem with people blocking their IP's ...then they are sending out unsoliceted mail. People wont block things they want to receive. The only exception I've ran into with this is if they got blocked by use of the list on spews.org. However, from what you already wrote...I dont think this is the case. 4. We disconnect the repeat offending spammers. This is a slow process. If you can avoid having a spam customer.....I'd do it. 5. If we find that a new customer prospect was spamming with the IP's from their previouse provider...we dont take them on as a customer. 6. I do IP clean up on all blocks of IP's. It's a nightmare to get IP's off of lists after a spamming customer has been disco'd. Some have become totally unrecyclable due to spews.org. It costs your company to be a member of ARIN and to receive IP's. 7. As John hinted to...I'd get with your internet Manager and discuss what needs to be your Business Practice and possibly they should use a different internet product. 8. Everyone does it a little different. What we decided on as I detailed above was comprised of a budget decision, clean management of IP's and curteousy towards the internet community. Regards ELI IP Analyst On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, John M. Brown wrote: > First example Bob: > > Would the customer beable to justify 20 contiguous /28 ? > If so, then I don't think the RIR's care if they are out > of different parts of your alloc's. Its your IGP, and you > aren't pushing /28's to the nets BGP.. > > What Bob does with those addresses is between you and Bob > via your contracts and AUP. That is controlled by your > general business practices. If Bob or Many Bob's do things > that other private networks dont like, you may see less > connectivity to those other sites. Either way its not within > the RIR's area of responsiblity to say. RIR's must be limited > in their scope of policy. > > Second Example John: > > Does John qualify for 50 IP's ?? Can he do what he > needs with 1, 10, ?? Again, thats more an internal policy > rather than an external. Some companies will hand out IP's > like they grew on trees, others are more conservative. If they > can meet the requirements for the RIR's allocation, thats all > they need to worry about. > > Its not the RIR's policy to generally control this directly. > A RIR can affect a certain amount of control by not issuing > an allocation in the future if the requester has been wasteful. > > Third Example, Random IP. > > The technology is called DialUp :) or DSL with DHCP.... > > Sorry, I don't see the need to be so obfusticated, at the > network layer at least.. > > john brown > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-ppml@arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml@arin.net] On > > Behalf Of Jill Kulpinski > > Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 4:43 PM > > To: ppml@arin.net; arin-discuss@arin.net > > Subject: Anonymity...is it justification??? > > Importance: High > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > We have had a few cases over the past few months that I > > would like to > > > make sure I understand ARIN's policy regarding. I would > > also like to > > > hear the opinions of the community. > > > > > > Bob wants address space, say 20 /28s that are as > > 'non-contiguous' as > > > possible (ideal is unique first octet #, lesser preference > > is unique > > > in second octet, etc.) in order to 'mask' themselves from > > the person > > > they are querying so the recipient can not block out a range of > > > address space and evade Bob. Bob is performing what would be > > > considered 'good spam' but I do not think that it is necessarily my > > > call to be the internet ethics board regarding good and bad > > queries. > > > If this uniqueness is required for Bob to be successful as an > > > enterprise...they are technically justified as there is not > > currently > > > a better means of appearing random...does the Hosting Provider have > > > justification in assignment of non-contiguous space? > > > > > > John has a server that he wants to appear to other people as 50 > > > servers and therefore he want 50 addresses for one physical > > device. > > > He is trying to access URLs that his users have > > specifically requested > > > to be signed up for (i.e. newsletter type deals), but with > > the amount > > > of mail John sends on behalf of his Customers from one IP to these > > > sites, the site may block the IP from the mass mailings. Does the > > > Hosting Provider allow multiple addresses per one physical > > server to > > > assist in the distribution of mail by not flooding a site with > > > thousands of queries from one address? > > > > > > So, is the requirement from a business perspective to mask one's > > > address through IP randomization of different forms appropriate to > > > accept? I am having a hard time knowing where to draw the line at > > > saying 'nope...not good justification'. I get the response from > > > Prospects that they can not do business without being able > > to appear > > > anonymous and I do not necessarily feel okay with then telling them > > > good-bye or recommending a different business. We have > > been working > > > to come up with alternative options for these Customers, > > but then it > > > gets to the point of almost designing their network > > architecture and > > > systems which was not the aim. Does the community have any > > > suggestions on technology available that can provide anonymity > > > without using a mass amount or dis-contiguous addresses? > > What are the > > > thoughts regarding this idea for justification of address > > space? Is > > > there an ARIN policy that applies at this time? If not, do > > we need to > > > develop one? > > > > > > Any input (constructive please) would be helpful and thanks > > for your > > > time. Jill Kulpinski > > > > > > > > > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 4 17:18:53 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA19078 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:07:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp1.arin.net (smtp1.arin.net [192.149.252.133]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA19071 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:07:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from scl8owa02.int.exodus.net (smtp1 [192.149.252.33] (may be forged)) by smtp1.arin.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g84C4fWQ000143 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:04:41 GMT Received: from scl8ex01.int.exodus.net ([10.255.74.242]) by scl8owa02.int.exodus.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:09:18 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: FW: Being blacklisted by Spews Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:09:18 -0700 Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Being blacklisted by Spews Thread-Index: AcJUVs8OLPz5JzfoR96OEi2LAqC+jgAAD1Iw From: "Jill Kulpinski" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Sep 2002 21:09:18.0357 (UTC) FILETIME=[54EE0C50:01C25457] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by ops.arin.net id RAA19073 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk > Hello, > What do other ISPs in the community do if they have Customers who get the ISPs address space blacklisted by spews? > > Thanks very much, > Jill Kulpinski > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 4 19:15:18 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA03549 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:04:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp1.arin.net (smtp1.arin.net [192.149.252.133]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA03527 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:04:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sparta.eli.net (smtp1 [192.149.252.33] (may be forged)) by smtp1.arin.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g84E1dWQ003351 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:01:39 GMT Received: from localhost (ipadmin@localhost) by sparta.eli.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA17020; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:01:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:01:27 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Jill Kulpinski cc: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: FW: Being blacklisted by Spews In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Jill- the method of dealing with it varies widely. 1. If IP's are getting blacklisted because a customer of ours is spamming, then we work to stop the customer from spamming. However, if they dont stop spamming we then disconnect that customer. We then spend alot of time working with the sites that have those IP's blacklisted to get them unlisted again since we have disco'd that customer. 2. If you have customers unappropriately blacklisted like spews.org does ALOT...then you can either start to null route spews.org or find some miracle that gets you contact info to spews.org and work with them to take the incorrect IP's off the list. ELI IP Analyst On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Jill Kulpinski wrote: > > > > Hello, > > What do other ISPs in the community do if they have Customers who get the ISPs address space blacklisted by spews? > > > > Thanks very much, > > Jill Kulpinski > > > > > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 4 20:30:14 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA11475 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:19:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp1.arin.net (smtp1.arin.net [192.149.252.133]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA11462; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:19:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from scl8owa02.int.exodus.net (smtp1 [192.149.252.33] (may be forged)) by smtp1.arin.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g84FGeWQ004981; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:16:41 GMT Received: from scl8ex01.int.exodus.net ([10.255.74.242]) by scl8owa02.int.exodus.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:21:16 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Being blacklisted by Spews Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:21:16 -0700 Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Being blacklisted by Spews Thread-Index: AcJUWpI7ujd6GJYIQA24mGK4PHMYYgAFjvIA From: "Jill Kulpinski" To: , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Sep 2002 00:21:16.0665 (UTC) FILETIME=[26605E90:01C25472] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by ops.arin.net id UAA11463 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Hello Hansel and all, Thanks for your comment and just to clarify, I am not speaking with regards to Exodus or any specific ISP. This is a general question that I wanted to raise to the community for feedback. It is interesting because a lot of the feedback is saying that the ISP would just disconnect the Customer. What if the Customer was sending a lot of mail from an address because they provided newsletter distribution services? Jill -----Original Message----- From: Hansel E. Lee Jr. Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:30 PM To: Jill Kulpinski Subject: RE: Being blacklisted by Spews Terminate customers who violate our AUP. We terminate customers on the first SPAM complaint and have never had any IP address/block ever listed in SPEWS or any other blacklist. Once you terminate the Spammers you'll over time fall off the blacklists. Note that Exodus is listed quite frequently in: news.admin.net-abuse.email which is often how folks get into SPEWS. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&newwindow=1&q=ex odus&btnG=Google+Search&meta=group%3Dnews.admin.net-abuse.email Would be nice if Exodus started to crack down on spammers. It is a bad business practice to host them and ultimately will drive away your legitimate customers. Hansel E. Lee Jr. -----Original Message----- From: owner-ppml@arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml@arin.net] On Behalf Of Jill Kulpinski Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:07 PM To: ppml@arin.net Subject: Being blacklisted by Spews Hello, What do other ISPs in the community do if they have Customers who get the ISPs address space blacklisted by spews? Thanks very much, Jill Kulpinski From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 4 20:49:43 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA13203 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:39:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp1.arin.net (smtp1.arin.net [192.149.252.133]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA13199 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:39:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from as.vix.com (smtp1 [192.149.252.33] (may be forged)) by smtp1.arin.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g84FaKWQ005368 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:36:20 GMT Received: from as.vix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by as.vix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B4228B6F for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 00:39:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Vixie To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: Being blacklisted by Spews In-Reply-To: Message from "Jill Kulpinski" of "Wed, 04 Sep 2002 17:21:16 MST." X-Mailer: mh-e 6.0; nmh 1.0.4; Emacs 21.2 Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 00:39:04 +0000 Message-Id: <20020905003904.84B4228B6F@as.vix.com> Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk spews is small time. you can save time by just telling them to list all your customers. they'll list your whole /13 if you ask them. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Wed Sep 4 20:52:46 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA13419 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:42:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp1.arin.net (smtp1.arin.net [192.149.252.133]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA13408; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:42:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cam-po2.genuity.com (smtp1 [192.149.252.33] (may be forged)) by smtp1.arin.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g84FdcWQ005420; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:39:38 GMT Received: from sblumenthal-1.genuity.com (burl-vpn156-112.genuity.com [171.78.156.112]) by cam-po2.genuity.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g850gFB14509; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:42:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20020904201129.03441560@po2.genuity.com> X-Sender: blumenth@po2.genuity.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 20:16:24 -0400 To: "Jill Kulpinski" , , From: Steve Blumenthal Subject: RE: Being blacklisted by Spews In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Jill, We (at Genuity) would only disconnect a customer if they continued to violate our acceptable use policy after being given a warning to shape up and comply. If they were sending a lot of email to subscribers of a newsletter who had signed up to receive it, that would be OK. Steve At 05:21 PM 09/04/2002 -0700, Jill Kulpinski wrote: >Hello Hansel and all, >Thanks for your comment and just to clarify, I am not speaking with >regards to Exodus or any specific ISP. This is a general question that I >wanted to raise to the community for feedback. >It is interesting because a lot of the feedback is saying that the ISP >would just disconnect the Customer. What if the Customer was sending a >lot of mail from an address because they provided newsletter distribution >services? > >Jill > >-----Original Message----- >From: Hansel E. Lee Jr. Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:30 PM >To: Jill Kulpinski >Subject: RE: Being blacklisted by Spews > > >Terminate customers who violate our AUP. We terminate customers on the >first SPAM complaint and have never had any IP address/block ever listed >in SPEWS or any other blacklist. Once you terminate the Spammers >you'll over time fall off the blacklists. > >Note that Exodus is listed quite frequently in: >news.admin.net-abuse.email which is often how folks get into SPEWS. > >http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&newwindow=1&q=ex >odus&btnG=Google+Search&meta=group%3Dnews.admin.net-abuse.email > >Would be nice if Exodus started to crack down on spammers. It is a bad >business practice to host them and ultimately will drive away your >legitimate customers. > >Hansel E. Lee Jr. > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-ppml@arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml@arin.net] On Behalf Of Jill >Kulpinski >Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:07 PM >To: ppml@arin.net >Subject: Being blacklisted by Spews > > >Hello, >What do other ISPs in the community do if they have Customers who get >the ISPs address space blacklisted by spews? > >Thanks very much, >Jill Kulpinski From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Thu Sep 5 10:40:10 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA10013 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:24:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp1.arin.net (smtp1.arin.net [192.149.252.133]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA10009 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:24:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from as.vix.com (smtp1 [192.149.252.33] (may be forged)) by smtp1.arin.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g855M6WQ014829 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 05:22:06 GMT Received: from as.vix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by as.vix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE73F28B6F for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:24:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Vixie To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: Re: Being blacklisted by Spews In-Reply-To: Message from Cindy Soulia of "Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:25:03 -0400." <5.0.2.1.2.20020905082002.046a5140@po3.genuity.com> X-Mailer: mh-e 6.0; nmh 1.0.4; Emacs 21.2 Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 14:24:46 +0000 Message-Id: <20020905142446.EE73F28B6F@as.vix.com> Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk > >spews is small time. you can save time by just telling them to list all > >your customers. they'll list your whole /13 if you ask them. > > SPEWS is a problem. They have blacklisted address blocks for a larger > aggregate than what the offending customer has. This impacts other > customers on that aggregate. Their response to fixing these types of > problems has been poor. When the offending customer does leave, you can't > reallocate their block because it is still blacklisted by SPEWS. Unless > you have address space to spare, having them blacklist one of your blocks > can create problems for the ISP and customers within those blocks. i'm sorry, i underspoke. you can save time by giving spews a list of all of your address space and telling them you want it all listed. they are fools, and their subscribers are worse, and the sooner they list 0.0.0.0/0 the better off we will all be. there is no reasoning with them, as you've discovered. that means the end state is clear, it's just the schedule we don't yet know. might as well hasten the end. i certainly don't think any of us should dignify their work by trying to get anything removed from the list. they are small time. forget them, or ridicule them, but in no sense or case take them at all seriously. From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Fri Jul 25 06:19:01 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id GAA25603 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp2.arin.net (smtp2.arin.net [192.149.252.134]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id GAA25599 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:01:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com Received: by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix, from userid 5003) id 3DE01AD1; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:01:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from intldssmtp001.radianz.com (intldssmtp001.radianz.com [195.16.185.40]) by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2ADAC8 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:01:53 -0400 (EDT) To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management software MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.10 March 22, 2002 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:01:14 +0100 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on INTLDSSMTP001/UK-Serv/RadianzExt(Release 5.0.9a |January 7, 2002) at 25/07/2003 11:04:57, Serialize complete at 25/07/2003 11:04:57 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.1 required=5.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.43-arin1 X-Spam-Level: ** Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Would it be appropriate for the ARIN staff to survey the membership regarding the type of IP address management software people are using internally? I'd like to know how many people are using commercial/Open-Source packages and which packages are in use. It would also be interesting to know whether any of these packages can automatically produce the reports required by ARIN for additional IP address allocations. ------------------------------------------------------- Michael Dillon Capacity Planning, Prescot St., London, UK Mobile: +44 7900 823 672 Internet: michael.dillon@radianz.com Phone: +44 20 7650 9493 Fax: +44 20 7650 9030 From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jul 28 12:20:43 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA28724 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:06:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp2.arin.net (smtp2.arin.net [192.149.252.134]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA28719 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:06:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix, from userid 5003) id B81495E3; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:06:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pflnocsr.networktelephone.net (mail.networktelephone.net [216.107.65.168]) by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C09C85E7 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:06:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: From PFLNOCZR.NETWORKTELEPHONE.NET (10.255.241.34[10.255.241.34 port:3623]) by pflnocsr.networktelephone.net Mail essentials (server 2.422) with SMTP id: <80207@pflnocsr.networktelephone.net> for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:56:47 AM -0500 smtpmailfrom Received: by pflnoczr.corp.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:56:46 -0500 Message-ID: From: Rob Vinson To: "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" Cc: "'Michael.Dillon@radianz.com'" Subject: RE: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management software Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:56:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C35520.D8C9E3D0" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.9 required=5.0 tests=ASCII_FORM_ENTRY,EXCHANGE_SERVER,MAILTO_LINK, MIME_NULL_BLOCK,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03 version=2.43-arin1 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C35520.D8C9E3D0 Content-Type: text/plain I'd be curious myself. We developed an in-house db and web interface that tracks our assignments - but - have also tooled around with modules from Metasolv and Lucent's QIP. ___________________________________________ Rob V >>> Network Design IP Engineer rob.vinson@networktelephone.net 888.432.4855 x1753 -----Original Message----- From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com [mailto:Michael.Dillon@radianz.com] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:01 AM To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management software Would it be appropriate for the ARIN staff to survey the membership regarding the type of IP address management software people are using internally? I'd like to know how many people are using commercial/Open-Source packages and which packages are in use. It would also be interesting to know whether any of these packages can automatically produce the reports required by ARIN for additional IP address allocations. ------------------------------------------------------- Michael Dillon Capacity Planning, Prescot St., London, UK Mobile: +44 7900 823 672 Internet: michael.dillon@radianz.com Phone: +44 20 7650 9493 Fax: +44 20 7650 9030 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C35520.D8C9E3D0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management software

I'd be curious myself. We developed an in-house db = and web interface that tracks our assignments - but - have also tooled = around with modules from Metasolv and Lucent's QIP.

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Rob V >>> 
Network Design IP Engineer
rob.vinson@networktelephone.net
888.432.4855 x1753

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com [mailto:Michael.Dillon@radianz= .com]
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:01 AM
To: arin-discuss@arin.net
Subject: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management = software


Would it be appropriate for the ARIN staff to survey = the membership
regarding the type of IP address management software = people are using
internally? I'd like to know how many people are = using
commercial/Open-Source packages and which packages = are in use.

It would also be interesting to know whether any of = these packages can
automatically produce the reports required by ARIN = for additional IP
address allocations.

-------------------------------------------------------
Michael Dillon
Capacity Planning, Prescot St., London, UK
Mobile: +44 7900 823 672    Internet: = michael.dillon@radianz.com
Phone: +44 20 7650 9493    Fax: +44 = 20 7650 9030

------_=_NextPart_001_01C35520.D8C9E3D0-- From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jul 28 14:28:38 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA18754 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:13:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp2.arin.net (smtp2.arin.net [192.149.252.134]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA18742 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:13:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix, from userid 5003) id D2DA6474; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:13:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kronos.wustl.edu (kronos.cait.wustl.edu [128.252.53.11]) by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875C63F9 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:13:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kronos.cait.wustl.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:29:11 -0500 Message-ID: From: Bill Darte To: "'Rob Vinson'" , "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" Cc: "'Michael.Dillon@radianz.com'" Subject: RE: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management software Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:29:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C35536.230745E0" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=ASCII_FORM_ENTRY,EXCHANGE_SERVER,HTML_FONT_COLOR_BLUE, MAILTO_LINK,MIME_NULL_BLOCK,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02 version=2.43-arin1 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C35536.230745E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This topic is a perfect topic for disscussion on this list. Why not formalize you inquiry and send it to the list? It is also a topic which could be scheduled following one of the upcoming Public Policy meetings in Chicago. When the CLEW working group existed, it often met in such fashion. Also, there may be interest in developing such an application as an Open Source project. I think (personal opinion) that such a survey by ARIN staff would be innappropriate unless they had nothing else to do, which doesn't seem possible. Bill Darte -----Original Message----- From: Rob Vinson [mailto:Rob.Vinson@networktelephone.net] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 10:57 AM To: 'arin-discuss@arin.net' Cc: 'Michael.Dillon@radianz.com' Subject: RE: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management software I'd be curious myself. We developed an in-house db and web interface that tracks our assignments - but - have also tooled around with modules from Metasolv and Lucent's QIP. ___________________________________________ Rob V >>> Network Design IP Engineer rob.vinson@networktelephone.net 888.432.4855 x1753 -----Original Message----- From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com [ mailto:Michael.Dillon@radianz.com ] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:01 AM To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management software Would it be appropriate for the ARIN staff to survey the membership regarding the type of IP address management software people are using internally? I'd like to know how many people are using commercial/Open-Source packages and which packages are in use. It would also be interesting to know whether any of these packages can automatically produce the reports required by ARIN for additional IP address allocations. ------------------------------------------------------- Michael Dillon Capacity Planning, Prescot St., London, UK Mobile: +44 7900 823 672 Internet: michael.dillon@radianz.com Phone: +44 20 7650 9493 Fax: +44 20 7650 9030 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C35536.230745E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" RE: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management software
This topic is a perfect topic for disscussion on this list.  Why not formalize you inquiry and send it to the list?
It is also a topic which could be scheduled following one of the upcoming Public Policy meetings in Chicago.  When the CLEW working group existed, it often met in such fashion.  Also, there may be interest in developing such an application as an Open Source project.
 
I think (personal opinion) that such a survey by ARIN staff would be innappropriate unless they had nothing else to do, which doesn't seem possible.
 
Bill Darte
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Vinson [mailto:Rob.Vinson@networktelephone.net]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 10:57 AM
To: 'arin-discuss@arin.net'
Cc: 'Michael.Dillon@radianz.com'
Subject: RE: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management software

I'd be curious myself. We developed an in-house db and web interface that tracks our assignments - but - have also tooled around with modules from Metasolv and Lucent's QIP.

___________________________________________
 
Rob V >>> 
Network Design IP Engineer
rob.vinson@networktelephone.net
888.432.4855 x1753

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com [mailto:Michael.Dillon@radianz.com]
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:01 AM
To: arin-discuss@arin.net
Subject: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management software


Would it be appropriate for the ARIN staff to survey the membership
regarding the type of IP address management software people are using
internally? I'd like to know how many people are using
commercial/Open-Source packages and which packages are in use.

It would also be interesting to know whether any of these packages can
automatically produce the reports required by ARIN for additional IP
address allocations.

-------------------------------------------------------
Michael Dillon
Capacity Planning, Prescot St., London, UK
Mobile: +44 7900 823 672    Internet: michael.dillon@radianz.com
Phone: +44 20 7650 9493    Fax: +44 20 7650 9030

------_=_NextPart_001_01C35536.230745E0-- From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jul 28 16:03:28 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA07708 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:51:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp2.arin.net (smtp2.arin.net [192.149.252.134]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA07694 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:51:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix, from userid 5003) id 915716B3; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:51:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from thanatos.is.co.za (thanatos.is.co.za [196.4.160.229]) by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D696AF for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:51:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hermwas.is.co.za (hermwas.is.co.za [196.23.0.8]) by thanatos.is.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D80E9BEFA for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:51:18 +0200 (SAST) Received: by hermwas.is.co.za (Postfix, from userid 10945) id D8F8430AFB; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:51:17 +0200 (SAT) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:51:17 +0200 From: Tony Wade To: ARIN Discussions Subject: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management Software Message-ID: <20030728215117.D23461@hermwas.is.co.za> Reply-To: Tony Wade Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=DISCLAIMER,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43-arin1 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Hi all, I am currently running a project at Internet Solutions in South Africa, to develop our own IP Database and Management system. This is designed around many of our existing client databases and systems that we have. We are still in the beginning phase of implimentation, but hope to have the system up and running with all our addresses in place by the end of this year. And have plans for many features. Including Auto-updates to ARIN. Tony Wade Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Internet Solutions Email: twade@isnet.net Tel: +27 11 575 0503 Fax: +27 11 576 0503 Switchboard: +27 11 575 1000 AC264-ARIN ABUSE239-ARIN #include From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Mon Jul 28 17:47:06 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA24001 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:33:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp2.arin.net (smtp2.arin.net [192.149.252.134]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA23995 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:33:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix, from userid 5003) id 54E1E4DC; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:33:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from alpine.megapath.net (owa.megapath.net [66.80.60.163]) by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239224A4 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:33:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ALPINE with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:33:17 -0700 Message-ID: <7890E58494115C4C8D864A0E1211D5AA07132012@ALPINE> From: Sean Crandall To: "'arin-discuss@arin.net'" Subject: RE: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management Software Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:33:15 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.4 required=5.0 tests=DISCLAIMER,EXCHANGE_SERVER,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, SPAM_PHRASE_02_03 version=2.43-arin1 Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk Hello all... This is exactly what I did for our company. I had looked around, but I was not able to find anything that suited our needs, so I wrote something while on a few cross country plane trips. What I have now saves me numerous hours reviewing data and managing our IP space (which is currently about five /16's between what we have and what our customers have). What does it do? * Tracks/assigns all WAN IPs for customers routers * Tracks/assigns all subnets assigned to customers * Monitors customer database for cancellations to automatically reclaim IP space from customers that have moved on * Manage all netblocks assigned from ARIN * Provides utilization reports specifically in reference to how close am I to the magical 80% to request more IPs. * Provides utilization information for each of our 12 markets around the country so that I know when we are running low on IPs for a region. If we are low, a couple of clicks and the IP pools are automatically refreshed. * Manages the assignments of /24's to our 12 markets around the US while automatically making sure that if I assign a /21 to NYC, that it does not violate any subnet boundries or cross over into blocks that have been assign to other markets. * Daily scrubs of all /24's to be used for customer subnet assignments (not WAN IPs) to look for /24's that are completely used and then take them out of the search path when assigning IPs for customers (this is to speed up the assignments... no need to look for holes in blocks that you know are full). * Generates our RADIUS files which are used for automatic circuit provisioning and IP routing. * Automatically updates my RWhois server every day with all of our reassignment information. * Has the ability to automatically send out SWIP adds/changes/deletes (but I commented it out of the code because I wanted to stay with RWhois) * Tracks ASN's of our customers And one of the biggest benefits... * When I am ready to request more IPs from ARIN, I hit a button and 30 seconds later, a completed IP request form drops into my Inbox completely filled out with all of the detail that ARIN is looking for in processing a request. All I have to do is forward the email to ARIN! -Sean Sean P. Crandall VP Engineering Operations MegaPath Networks Inc. 6691 Owens Drive Pleasanton, CA 94588 (925) 201-2530 (office) (925) 201-2550 (fax) > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Wade [mailto:twade@is.co.za] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 12:51 PM > To: ARIN Discussions > Subject: [arin-discuss] IP Address Management Software > > > Hi all, > > I am currently running a project at Internet Solutions in > South Africa, to develop > our own IP Database and Management system. This is designed > around many of our > existing client databases and systems that we have. > > We are still in the beginning phase of implimentation, but > hope to have the system > up and running with all our addresses in place by the end of > this year. And have plans > for many features. Including Auto-updates to ARIN. > > > Tony Wade > Systems Engineer, Infrastructure > Internet Solutions > > Email: twade@isnet.net > Tel: +27 11 575 0503 > Fax: +27 11 576 0503 > Switchboard: +27 11 575 1000 > AC264-ARIN > ABUSE239-ARIN > > #include > From owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Fri Oct 24 12:31:18 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA09562 for arin-discuss-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:13:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp2.arin.net (smtp2.arin.net [192.149.252.134]) by ops.arin.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA09553 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:13:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com Received: by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix, from userid 5003) id 6C4556C3; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:13:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from intldssmtp001.radianz.com (intldssmtp001.radianz.com [195.16.185.40]) by smtp2.arin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EDEC635 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:13:39 -0400 (EDT) To: arin-discuss@arin.net Subject: [arin-discuss] IPv6 critical mass MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.10 March 22, 2002 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:12:41 +0100 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on INTLDSSMTP001/UK-Serv/RadianzExt(Release 6.0.2CF1|June 9, 2003) at 24/10/2003 17:17:43, Serialize complete at 24/10/2003 17:17:43 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.1 required=5.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.43-arin1 X-Spam-Level: ** Sender: owner-arin-discuss@arin.net Precedence: bulk I've been thinking about the IPv6 fee waivers and how we might come up with a way of measuring the period of time for which a fee waiver is needed. I've come up with a fairly simple concept which I call "critical mass". In other words, it is appropriate to have special measures like a fee waiver up until IPv6 reaches critical mass. So how do I define critical mass. It is the point at which a significant number of IPv6 LIRs have achieved a significant deployment of IPv6. This now raises the question as to what is a significant number of LIRs and what is "significant deployment". I define these as simple numbers and I do not claim that my suggested numbers are definitive. Others may feel that they should be adjusted up or down. In any case, here are my suggested numbers. IPv6 has reached critical mass in the ARIN region when 300 LIRs have each deployed more than 100 /48s. Note that this measure only counts the LIRs that have deployed a significant number of /48s, in other words this is a subset of all LIRs in the ARIN region. I don't know whether or not this should be enshrined in policy but it may be of use for the board to consider this approach when they discuss extending the IPv6 fee waiver. ------------------------------------------------------- Michael Dillon Capacity Planning, Prescot St., London, UK Mobile: +44 7900 823 672 Internet: michael.dillon@radianz.com Phone: +44 20 7650 9493 Fax: +44 20 7650 9030