[arin-discuss] Good Stewardship by example, I'd like to RETURN a /20

[jlewis at atlantic.net]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, John Brown wrote:

> I recently acquired a defunct ISP and their net-blocks.
>
> Some of those net-blocks I don't need today.  I may need them in the future
> if my business keeps growing.  Hopefully I can get some space then.
...
> In thinking about this, I've decided that the RIGHT ANSWER  is to return
> the space to the free pool.  Maybe others will do the right thing.  I don't
> know.  But at least I'll sleep to night knowing that I wasn't a PIG.

That's interesting.  My past experience in acquisitions of dying ISPs with 
their own ARIN-assigned space has been that ARIN will make you show 
justification/utilization before updating the reassignments to point to 
you.  Is this no longer the case?

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