Has anyone run into other providers that refuse to take RWHOIS information? As I understand the general goings on, ARIN just wants the information available so that we can generally contact the correct people to deal with issues as the arise. Now, I'm having an issue where verizon is telling a customer of mine that they can't use an assigned block because it isn't in SWIP form. And they're quoting back ARIN to us. " PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS. PLEASE USE THE business-support@verizon.com EMAIL ADDRESS for ALL correspondence While I understand your point, it is currently the Verizon policy to have the SWIP beforehand. It is possable to have the greater range with one name and the subdomain regestered to you. For example look at 162.84.100.160 on ARIN's site. Search results for: 162.84.100.160 Verizon Internet Services VIS-162-84 (NET-162-84-0-0-1) 162.84.0.0 - 162.84.255.255 Performance Group INC VZ-PRFMNCG-1 (NET-162-84-100-160-1) 162.84.100.160 - 162.84.100.191 # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-03-29 19:15 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. Also look at this link : http://www.arin.net/library/guidelines/swip.html If you have any questions, please contact the Network Support Center at 1.800.475.7840 Option 1, 1, 1 or e-mail business-support@verizon.com Regards Charles Leitner business-support@verizon.com Verizon Enterprise Customer Service 1.800.475.7840 Option 1, 1, 1 " Have they ignored: http://www.arin.net/tools/rwhois.html and the policy itself says "ISPs must provide reassignment information on the entire previously allocated block(s) via SWIP or RWhois server for /29 or larger blocks." Am I wrong for assuming that they are unreasonable in this? Eric Krichbaum Chief Engineer Citynet