[152297] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Lassoff)
Tue Apr 24 13:48:13 2012
In-Reply-To: <75305ce04e4a896ddb8f307bee34b7a8@thecpaneladmin.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:47:16 -0700
From: Jonathan Lassoff <jof@thejof.com>
To: admin@thecpaneladmin.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:32 AM, <admin@thecpaneladmin.com> wrote:
> Anyone have any tips for getting IPs from ARIN? For an end-user allocatio=
n
> they are requesting that we provide customer names for existing allocatio=
ns,
> which is information that will take a while to obtain. They are insisting
> that this is standard process and something that everyone does when
> requesting IPs. =A0Has anyone actually had to do this?
Indeed. It's worked this way for a long time.
When starting a new organization, there's a bit of a chicken and egg
problem with IP space. If anyone could get IP space just for asking
for it, it would have been consumed too quickly. So, organizations
must first get some space assigned to them from an upstream provider
and begin using it.
At some point the current usage and growth rate of the assigned space
will justify a direct allocation.
Then, you can renumber into your new space and be totally independent.
Cheers,
jof
