This is really not true, and folks who don't deal with ARIN need to know it. One's ability to deal with ARIN has nothing to do with industry standing or having a sparkling personality. Nor does it have to do with being a representative of a large company. Even ARIN AC members seem to have no special pull with the Help Desk - they apply their rules with admirable evenhandedness. Sometimes you may not agree with the rules, but as long as you play within them, there are no problems. If you don't like them, go to an ARIN meeting and work out some new ones. BTW, if, by "interesting", you mean "courteous and generally reasonable, considering the number of people trying to deceive them", you would be correct. Remember - lots of folks lie to them for a variety of reasons. If they are sticklers for documentation, its not because they are being difficult. Of course, those network "engineers" who are allergic to documentation will find dealing with ARIN to be impossible. They will also find troubleshooting, capacity planning, and many other tasks to be quite difficult. - Dan On 11/12/04 2:13 PM, "James Laszko" <jamesl@pcipros.com> wrote:
I'm just glad we were able to get our allocation from them. If I hadn't been in this business for a decade and didn't have the wonderful personality that I have, it might have been impossible. <g>
Those people over at the ARIN Helpdesk are an interesting crowd....
James
-----Original Message----- From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 11:08 AM To: James Laszko Cc: Bill Woodcock; Philip Lavine; nanog Subject: RE: I want my own IPs
Good to know. I always though it was a /21 or /20. I'm pretty sure ARIN rules change with the weather, though.
no. it's the downdraft from the black helicopters
randy
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