Are you referring to space you got directly from ARIN? If so, it is by definition portable. If it is space from a provider it belongs to the provider, not you and is thus not portable. john ________________________________ From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Roldan, Brad Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 4:52 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Reclassification of NON-PORTABLE address space? Anyone know if there is a precedent for reclassifying blocks of non-portable address space to portable? I didn't see anything in ARIN archives (maybe I didn't look hard enough). Bribery? Threats? Acquisition of the assignor by the assignee? If such a reclassification were simple, I expect that the process would be heavily abused by smaller networks that would like to avoid renumbering. Brad -- Covad Communications 2510 Zanker Road San Jose, CA 95131 +1-408-434-2048