On Sep 17, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > I have a small ISP customer who is not multi-homed, and is using about a /21 > and a half of space, and is expanding. Their upstream is refusing to give > them more space, so they wanted to get their own, and give back the space to > the upstream, with the possible exception of a small block for their servers, > which would be very difficult to renumber. We explained this all, and the > response we got from ARIN was that we needed to have a full /20 from the > upstream, at which time we could easily get a /20 of new space. In order to > qualify for the immediate need, we would need to show need for the entire > /20, of which we would need to fully utilize (renumber into) within 30 days. > That is not even remotely possible. > > The problem with this whole thing is that I have no less than 4 ISPs that are > in almost the same boat.
Randy - If that policy is an issue for many of your customers, can you please come up with an alternative policy for consideration by the community? Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN
