On 4/26/12, Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
In addition to this documentation, for reallocations of /29 or more IPs, SWIP or Rwhois is also required by policy. It is unreasonable to require detailed customer information on /32 static assignments which make up the smallest fraction of space compared
It is not unreasonable to require detailed information be kept; it is standard business practice to maintain such documentation for support, incident handling, and billing purposes. If that customer stops paying for their service, exactly the right service will be determined. It is also required that exactly the right /32 be de-allocated; the previous customer's use of that /32 can no longer be used to consider the IP still utilized for justifying future allocations, until it is reassigned. If the provider failed to "unmark" that static /32 as utilized in their management system, in that case, it may be ARIN's job to detect the absence of proof of current utilization for those now-unused /32s. The provider is required to maintain that detailed level of documentation, but it is burdensome to publish documentation down to the /32 level, hence, one of the reasons that it is actually not required to RWHOIS or SWIP, unless the allocation is a /29 or larger. That doesn't excuse the provider from maintaining documentation, that ARIN may require at any time, it just reduces the operational burden of constantly updating external databases with single-IP assignments.
to the huge blocks of dhcp pools (pools which justify allocations on their own). In addition, a few show commands on a router displaying arp
Proof implies that you have provided independently verifiable information, that can be used to show that the applicant is providing truthful information. Some "show" commands will show DHCP server usage, but not conclusive proof of the utilization of the address space. Because the show commands are not independently verifiable -- for all the RIR knows, someone plugged in a big stack of $10 modems just to register with the DHCP server. -- -JH