If your AS is in an appropriate (your upstream providers) autnum, and the route object for the prefix is in the <pick the registry of your choice> things work without a phone call. When they don't work, our noc does a good job of helping to figure out what the problem is and getting it fixed.. That exception is the process Jon is in.
Then some of us out here away from bal;my Ann Arbor are even more confused than usual, hard as that may be to believe. Every time we have moved a new prefix into our AS, especially one which ANS knows from another provider, it is a manual operation irrespective of what we have registered in the IRR. And we are IRR fanatics, as few seem to remember. Heck, we are even paying cash to support the RADB services this annum. So what the heck are we doing wrongly? E.g. last month's move of PREPnet into AS2914. randy