Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful

Perhaps in the UK there are different requirements for allocation of address space than InterNIC/ARIN.

In the UK, as in the rest of Europe, IP addresses are allocated from the same finite pool of IPv4 space you use. That's one of the reasons that InterNIC/ARIN and its counterpart regional registry in Europe, the RIPE NCC, as well as APNIC, have maintained contact and cooperation over a long period; working to identical goals, they haves developed broadly similar policies on address allocation. It is encouraging to see that policy reflected in sensible practices such as yours, and to see that it has payoffs in terms of the economies of address usage, with growing numbers of customers, that can be achieved. Regards. Mike Norris