[192930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Acquiring unused IP range. Some questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TJ Trout)
Fri Dec 2 20:40:12 2016
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From: TJ Trout <tj@pcguys.us>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 17:39:01 -0800
To: William McLendon <wimclend@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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Arin about a week. Just need a LOA for the block I think.
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 2:43 PM, William McLendon <wimclend@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> Hi everyone,
>
> we are about to acquire a block of IP=E2=80=99s from another organization=
that has
> unused space, and being fairly new to these procedures, I was hoping for
> some guidance.
>
> We have already been pre-approved by ARIN for the block size we are
> acquiring, and finalizing the deal with the current owner of the address
> space. First question is, once they initiate the transfer request to
> transfer the IP range to us, how long does that typically take for ARIN t=
o
> complete?
>
> Secondly, our relationship with the IP block owner is a very good one,
> such that I think they would be ok with us advertising this block before =
we
> technically own it. My question is, what do they and we need to do to
> accomplish that in the proper way, so that the internet at large would
> accept the advertisement from a different ASN, and not view as some sort =
of
> hijacking, etc. I am guessing they may need to update some RADB or
> something like that, but i=E2=80=99ll be honest my knowledge of how those=
things
> work and their complete function is pretty slim.
>
> This would be a short term thing as we expect the purchase process to
> complete pretty quickly, but it would be advantageous to us to be able to
> advertise the space immediately. We just want to make sure we start off =
on
> the right foot.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will
