On Aug 23, 2012, at 08:26 , "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <o...@ocosa.com> wrote:
> IMO the justifcation is probably in other areas of their business like cloud > services, data center, etc. > > Obvisouly, it was compelling enough to warrant ARIN's approval for allocation > of the space in the last stretch of IPv4. All /16 and larger requests goes to > IPv4 review team anyway. Not quite... https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_countdown.html Currently we are in phase 1. The team review you mention does not start until we reach Phase 2 (3 /8s remaining). In Phase 1, it only requires senior analyst and/or department director approval. I'll leave speculation as to what AT&T will do with the addresses to others. Owen