All, I have been all but gone from IP management and BGP administration tasks for over 2 years while teaching myself telecom as a CLEC. I recently had a past business acquaintance contact me that is currently reselling bandwidth and using a 3rd parties network to do so. He currently has about 15 /24 address blocks through this 3rd party and wants to move to his own AS number and away from theirs. I know when I was last involved it seemed a pretty difficult process to do this through ARIN. Has the process changed at all recently? I am going to help them get the AS number and get the process started, but when asked if they could keep their existing IP address I explained that the existing 3rd party would need to write a letter stating that they are willing to transfer those IP's to your AS, ARIN would have to approve it and it may be a bit of a hassle. They are currently running 7 data centers nationally and are willing to migrate IP's, but would rather not if they can help it. Does this sound about right? I am going to go read the ARIN pages tonight to see if I can answer this myself, but don't have time during the workday to do a lot of research on this myself. Figure someone here probably knows already. Shane Owens DNA Communications shaneowens@dna-communications.com (w)815-562-4290 x-201 (c)815-793-3822