On Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:41:31 -0400 you said:

If you are small, you can only get a small network assignment (slow start), as you will be running into the Great Wall "Internic" even with a request for a /22, and if you really succeed with your /22 or /20 assignment, you will have to discover that the conspiracy of the big 6 (laugh!) might have decided you are not worthy, and to go route what you got to yourself and don't expect them even wanting to know about it. If, on the other hand,

Even being big won't help. I know of a certain multinational company that has just spent $15M on lines and routers covering Europe (30 cities) and was only allowed to get a /19 since that is what one gets when one is new to the block, irregardless of whether you are in one city with a 256kb line to Dante or Ebone and 32 modems or whether you are a planning on being a big player (since, I guess, everyone comes along and shows how they are a *big* player). So this company went out and bought out a European ISP with a class A and has now solved its IP address shortage.

Kai Schlichting Internet Project Manager, BelCom, Inc. kai@belcom.net

Hank Nussbacher Israel