[e2e] the evolution of deployability

[RJ Atkinson]

On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 12:28 America/Montreal, Richard 
Jimmerson wrote:
> 1. ARIN does not have policies in place that require
> organizations to use NAT when providing services to
> customers.  ARIN staff are under strict instruction
> to not even suggest the use of NAT to organizations
> who request IP address space from ARIN.

I never said such.

> 2. ARIN does not have policies in place that relate to
> charging schemes for service providers.  ARIN does not
> in any way make recommendations to service providers
> regarding how they charge customers for service, or the
> use of IP address space.

ARIN absolutely did have a de facto policy to that effect
*under a previous administration* at ARIN.   And I have
heard that from a large number of other operators in the
(now historic) timeframe that I spoke about.  One of the
issues operators had during that (historic) timeframe was
a visible difference between public statements by ARIN
and the actual as-implemented policies that an operator
needed to follow to obtain address space to service new
customers.

I accept at face value your assertion that the currently
implemented policies are as you state them to be.

Ran
rja at extremenetworks.com