[144726] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Sat Sep 17 14:23:57 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:22:17 +0000
In-Reply-To: <462737ff-25e5-4846-9ac5-061cf580824b@zimbra.network1.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 17, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> I have a small ISP customer who is not multi-homed, and is using about a =
/21 and a half of space, and is expanding. Their upstream is refusing to gi=
ve them more space, so they wanted to get their own, and give back the spac=
e to the upstream, with the possible exception of a small block for their s=
ervers, which would be very difficult to renumber. We explained this all, a=
nd the response we got from ARIN was that we needed to have a full /20 from=
the upstream, at which time we could easily get a /20 of new space. In ord=
er to qualify for the immediate need, we would need to show need for the en=
tire /20, of which we would need to fully utilize (renumber into) within 30=
days. That is not even remotely possible.
>=20
> The problem with this whole thing is that I have no less than 4 ISPs that=
are in almost the same boat.
Randy -=20
=20
If that policy is an issue for many of your customers, can you=20
please come up with an alternative policy for consideration by
the community? =20
Thanks!
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
