----- Original Message ----- > From: "Randy Carpenter" <rcar...@network1.net>
> 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. And worse, it violates best practices[1] rather thoroughly. Cheers, -- jra [1]Never expand to anything smaller than twice what you have now. -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
