From karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger):

But others have reported to me that they have been asked for them, and I was a personal witness to one of those requests. If Sprint, PSI, and Alternet have them on file with the NIC I want to FOIA those documents!

Dunno about others but Sprint provides InterNIC with extensive documentation on allocations and the technical reasons for doing this and that. We have automated facilities for producing the data on address space utilization. It is not bias on part of InterNIC, it is lack of proven usage history and proper documentation which makes life of people who go directly to InterNIC miserable. (I have complaints about InterNIC not allocating more than 1024 Cs a POP, so now i have to maintain three dozen of CIDR blocks instead of six the SprintLink's address allocation sstrategy requires, and have to limit per-customer allocations by small blocks; but i cannot say they are unfair). --vadim