No, you didn't. You may have completed the acquisition of a large IPv6 block, but you did not purchase it.
Number resources are not property and cannot be bought and/or sold. What you pay to ARIN pays for registration services (the registration of the numbers, not the numbers themselves). While I realize that in practice this may seem like a distinction without a difference, there are major legal and practical implications to this fact that are quite important to the very underpinnings of how the internet works. Owen On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:54 AM, -Hammer- wrote: > I can say that I recently completed the purchase of a large IPv6 block. We've > had several large V4 blocks for years and got them with very little effort. > For this block, we had to provide a detailed list of all our physical > locations as well as how the IP schema would be utilized. I also had to > provide site drawings (scrubbed visios) showing my topology layout to justify > my additional ASNs. It was not a harsh ordeal. ARIN was very professional > about it. But it was a lot more paperwork than what I've needed in the past. > None of it seemed unreasonable. We just had to work out NDAs and whatnot so I > could share more detailed information with them. > > -Hammer- > > "I was a normal American nerd" > -Jack Herer > > > > On 4/25/2012 10:34 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> There is not a new policy added on to prevent hoarding. What is required is >> what >> has been required for several years. Utilization information and proper >> justification. >> >> If you are seeking an ISP allocation, then, reassignment (customer) >> information is >> in fact part of that utilization information. >> >> Owen >> >> On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Kenneth McRae wrote: >> >>> Negative.. I have never had to provide end user information. I have been >>> required to provide utilization information. I am sure this "policy" is >>> and add-on to make it more difficult to prevent hoarding.. >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Jonathan Lassoff<j...@thejof.com> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> >>> >>> Kenneth McRae >>> *Sr. Network Engineer* >>> kenneth.mc...@dreamhost.com >>> Ph: 323-375-3814 >>> www.dreamhost.com >> >>
