In a message written on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 01:54:28PM -0800, Joel jaeggli wrote:
We know rather alot about the original posters' business, it has ~34 million wireless subscribers in north america. I think it's safe to assume that adequate docuementation could be provided.
As I suspect there are a few confused people here, the OP did not post that information. Google shows Cameron Byrne works at T-Moble USA, per his LinkedIn, and I believe Joel is citing that T-Moble has ~34 Million subscribers, which seems to match some recent info. It appears to me folks are _assuming_ his request to ARIN was for T-Moble, and covered all 34 Million users. Of course that still doesn't mean 34 million IP addresses are required. T-Moble sells phones today that can't do anything IP related (http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Phones/cell-phone-detail.aspx?cell-phone=Samsun..., as an example), and even for the phones that can do IP not all of them are connected at once. I will repeat myself though, we don't know what was submitted to ARIN, or why they responded the way they did. Having the OP come whine to NANOG without us having that information is useless. ARIN's PPML list might be more helpful, or some AC members. Heck, even picking up the phone and talking to ARIN might work better. To bring this back on topic for NANOG though, they need to get it sorted quickly. ARIN shows an equivilent of 5.63 /8's in inventory right now. If 34 million addresses are needed, and can be used to 80% effiency that would require ~2.5 /8's worth of space. It would only take a couple of these sorts of requests and the free pool is gone. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/