[85468] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Requesting P.I. Space from ARIN - latest issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Tue Oct 11 11:33:06 2005
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:33:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0510111010020.56188-100000@richard2.pil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, up@3.am wrote:
> 1) I meet the Multihoming requirement, which means I can get a block as
> small as a /22, which is about right for my needs. Are there still any
> concerns about networks (as Verio and Sprint have done in the past)
> filtering out longer prefixes, and if so, does it depend on whether it;s
> former class A, B, C or swamp space? I know when I got my current block
> from my upstream, I had to make sure I got swamp space, because the former
> class B block they initially allocated to me wouldn't have made it past
> Verio's filters at that time.
Most if not all of the /8s that get assigned to ARIN have a prescribed
minimum allocation size. How rigorously that is followed is another
story :-) I don't think you can specifically request that ARIN assign you
space out of the swamp these days.
jms
