On Apr 24, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:32 AM, <ad...@thecpaneladmin.com> wrote: >> Anyone have any tips for getting IPs from ARIN? For an end-user allocation >> they are requesting that we provide customer names for existing allocations, >> which is information that will take a while to obtain. They are insisting >> that this is standard process and something that everyone does when >> requesting IPs. Has anyone actually had to do this? > > Indeed. It's worked this way for a long time. > > When starting a new organization, there's a bit of a chicken and egg > problem with IP space. If anyone could get IP space just for asking > for it, it would have been consumed too quickly. So, organizations > must first get some space assigned to them from an upstream provider > and begin using it. > At some point the current usage and growth rate of the assigned space > will justify a direct allocation. > > Then, you can renumber into your new space and be totally independent. > > Cheers, > jof
That's not entirely true. What you say applies to one possible way for an ISP to get an allocation. It does not apply at all to end-users. Owen
