On Apr 21, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
Some "customers" have wised up and when providing IP justification,
they don't mention SEO anymore. However, I've seen several requests
in the past couple weeks from customers/prospective customers
wanting /24's or larger subnets (or they're not buying/canceling
service) where the justification provided was something ARIN would
probably be ok with, but IMO was completely FoS. It's hard to tell
sales "no" when the customer tells you exactly what they think you
want to hear [for IP justification], but your gut tells you "this is
BS".
Then you have an obligation to investigate. It's in the NRPM ;-)
For our part, it becomes really easy. When someone submits a request
for 200 physical hosts and their profile says they are paying for 40
amps of power... yeah, it's easy to know they are lying ;-)
It is a problem because some ISPs don't care and just give away IPs,
so customers get annoyed with us when I ask for proper justification.
Oh well ;-)
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Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
