Arin about a week. Just need a LOA for the block I think. On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 2:43 PM, William McLendon <wimcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > we are about to acquire a block of IP’s from another organization that has > unused space, and being fairly new to these procedures, I was hoping for > some guidance. > > We have already been pre-approved by ARIN for the block size we are > acquiring, and finalizing the deal with the current owner of the address > space. First question is, once they initiate the transfer request to > transfer the IP range to us, how long does that typically take for ARIN to > complete? > > Secondly, our relationship with the IP block owner is a very good one, > such that I think they would be ok with us advertising this block before we > technically own it. My question is, what do they and we need to do to > accomplish that in the proper way, so that the internet at large would > accept the advertisement from a different ASN, and not view as some sort of > hijacking, etc. I am guessing they may need to update some RADB or > something like that, but i’ll be honest my knowledge of how those things > work and their complete function is pretty slim. > > This would be a short term thing as we expect the purchase process to > complete pretty quickly, but it would be advantageous to us to be able to > advertise the space immediately. We just want to make sure we start off on > the right foot. > > > Thanks, > > Will
