[88050] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IP Addresses from a different region
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Thu Jan 19 10:06:01 2006
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
To: "'Sam Stickland'" <sam_ml@spacething.org>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:05:27 -0000
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.61.0601191412411.2844@tech1.office.toastedmedia.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
get the chickens out now dood!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Sam Stickland
> Sent: 19 January 2006 14:21
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: IP Addresses from a different region
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Long story short... I'm under some considerable pressure from
> management to obtain a /24 of addresses from ARIN. We are a
> UK based ISP that are, of course, members of RIPE. Is this
> possible? If I approach one of ARIN's LIRs can they obtain
> ARIN PI space for our client, and are their any volunteers?
> Or, is it the case, that being outside of ARIN's geographic
> reach that we can't approach them?
>
> Short story long... This is for a client that currently has a
> USA based operation, that wants to consolidate everything in
> one of our colo centres. Their USA servers are involved in
> some of kind advertising system that attempts to do
> geographic location based on the IP address prefix. I am
> assured that traceroutes, SWIP data, and AS number play no
> part in this geographic lookup.
>
> The client insists that they must have addresses from a
> prefix that appear to have been allocated by ARIN for this
> system to continue to work. The language barrier between us
> has been scrupering attempts by me to get more techincal
> information from them.
>
> As usual management are interested in "solutions not
> problems" ;) and this deal is worth quite a bit of money. I
> hate to be contributing to the ever increasing PI swamp
> space, but unfortunately I don't pay my own wages.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Sam
>
