At 11:37 PM 11/8/98 -0500, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 07:01:13PM -0500, Kim Hubbard wrote:
By asking you not to SWIP assignments longer than /29 ARIN is not encouraging you to not issue them, we just don't think it's necessary to have every single dialup user listed in WHOIS.
I have to agree with Kim. That's why I shuddered when I thought of every single static IP address at every ISP being SWIP'd. It would increase ARIN's database exponentially and is not necessary.
So it goes from a few hundred MB's to a few GBs? What's the big deal. Given a trivial CustomerDB, in an RDBMS, it's still under 100 GB for a few million IPs. 150 GB of RAID5 is still less than $30KUS and dropping daily, even on HP (High Priced <grin>) equipment. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky