On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
Fyi, I just was rejected from arin for an ipv4 allocation. I demonstrated I own ~100k ipv4 addresses today.
My customers use over 10 million bogon / squat space ip addresses today, and I have good attested data on that.
Cameron, I have a client who went through the same problem in early-2011. They had several thousand residential and small business end-users behind NAT and wished to provision public IP addresses for them. They assumed ARIN would be pleased to issue an appropriate block for their project. David Huberman rejected their request outright and told them to request provider space, renumber the customers to provider IPs, and then apply to ARIN again and renumber their network a second time. The client did not bother to involve me until after they had already been told to FOAD. This is clearly a counter-productive waste of time, but if the client had applied using the immediate need process, and provided the additional supporting documentation required by that, I think they would not have had this problem. The analyst you worked with should have suggested a different application procedure or otherwise worked with you to facilitate your request. Sometimes the ARIN staff are nice and helpful, sometimes they are not. It depends on who you get assigned to, price of tea in china, phase of the moon, etc. -- Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts