[113798] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Tue Apr 21 20:03:12 2009
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0904211935250.6312@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:02:59 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 21, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> Some "customers" have wised up and when providing IP justification,
> they don't mention SEO anymore. However, I've seen several requests
> in the past couple weeks from customers/prospective customers
> wanting /24's or larger subnets (or they're not buying/canceling
> service) where the justification provided was something ARIN would
> probably be ok with, but IMO was completely FoS. It's hard to tell
> sales "no" when the customer tells you exactly what they think you
> want to hear [for IP justification], but your gut tells you "this is
> BS".
Then you have an obligation to investigate. It's in the NRPM ;-)
For our part, it becomes really easy. When someone submits a request
for 200 physical hosts and their profile says they are paying for 40
amps of power... yeah, it's easy to know they are lying ;-)
It is a problem because some ISPs don't care and just give away IPs,
so customers get annoyed with us when I ask for proper justification.
Oh well ;-)
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Jo Rhett
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