On 4/25/2012 12:57 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 4/24/2012 2:00 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> I know that the ARIN process can, on occasion be tricky to navigate >> if you don't >> understand the subtleties of how some of the terminology is defined >> and that people >> often use terms which have very specific meanings to ARIN staff >> members to have >> a much broader meaning in what they are intending to say. I know that >> often leads >> to misunderstandings which make the process even more difficult. > > Yeah. Let's not forget that if you have 120 management devices (wifi > backhaul/switches/waps) and a ton of customers with /32 assignments > and you are renumbering from provider assigned space you gathered over > many years into your own initial ARIN assignment, they want: > > 1. equipment type and info for each management device > 2. customer info for each /32 assignment > > Tell me what ISP can legally and ethically give out their customer > base information? Don't get me wrong. I'm sure small guys don't think > twice about it, accumulating all the information and handing it over > to ARIN thinking they have no choice (the responses from ARIN leaves > one with that impression; you want the address space, you WILL give us > this). > > I sometimes wonder what happens to that information; if it sits around > in an archive somewhere in the vast digital repositories of ARIN > awaiting someone to steal it. > > Jack >
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