Jimmy, Their ARIN record says Direct Assignment rather than Direct Allocation, so it does appear ARIN considers them an end user. Also, I see no prior SWIPs, so possibly they never SWIPed their previous customers. I'll have to give ARIN a call.
-mel > On Mar 16, 2017, at 6:08 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org> wrote: >> Bill, >> Is there a technically a restriction preventing swiping of this IP space >> when it's being rented? How is that different from an ISP swiping its >> customers that are renting bandwidth? > > This is a difference between an "Allocated" block of addresses to an > ISP and an "Assigned" network prefix belonging to a end-user. > > End-User Orgs typically lack technical ability to create re-assignment > records showing a different > organization, b/c they have IPs assigned for a specific network.... > > ISPs / Co-location providers who are ARIN members with Allocated addresses > can Re-Allocate to a downstream ISP or Assign a network prefix from allocated > space to a downstream End-user organization. > > An End user can likely show they're an ISP, join ARIN as an ISP member, & > request Direct Assignments from ARIN be combined into new Allocations; > > If the character of the network changes, I would expect the new ISP > may have to show information to ARIN establishing that the change to > an ISP Allocation will be consistent with the NRPM requirements..... > > (Seeing as Assignments to End-Users and Allocations to ISPs have > different policies for creation described in the NRPM, and there's > no mention in the Policy they can be directly converted without a > Transfer or Renumber/Consolidate or Return & renumber....) > > >> -mel via cell > -- > -JH