Also Sprach Ron da Silva
Exactly which unpublished policies do you mean? Here is a list of the published policies.
Mostly its an issue of the policy not matching what they do (sorry for getting a little loose with my language). Specifically, off the top of my head, and hit close to home here. * Agree that the new /20 will be used to renumber out of the current addresses which will be returned to their upstream provider(s). and * To receive additional address space following the initial allocation, multi-homed organizations must have returned the original space (/21) to its provider in its entirety and must provide justification for a new allocation Again...this is specific for multi-homing...and perhaps the policies to non-multi-homing override these (we also qualified for non-multi-homed), but in that case...that should be spelled out. Reading ARIN's policies is an exercise in frustration thanks to, at least seemingly, conflicting information and requirements in different sections. What applies? What overrides? All learned only from repeated dealings with them at this point. With the above policies...I've had two different explanations from ARIN (as I mentioned, one after the initial allocation, one after the second allocation)...neither of which matched what I pasted from their website above. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456