[arin-discuss] IPv4 allocation conundrum

[Tony Hain]

IANAL ... but they already have public address space assigned by their
provider. That may only be a /32, but that is still public, and it is
assigned by their provider. It would likely help make the case if it were a
static assignment, but dhcp is an assignment mechanism. YMMV

Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-discuss-
> bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Randy Carpenter
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 7:56 PM
> To: arin-discuss at arin.net
> Subject: [arin-discuss] IPv4 allocation conundrum
> 
> 
> I am working with a new customer who is in a bit of a pickle...
> 
> They are an ISP and VoIP provider whose upstream provider wouldn't (or
> couldn't) give them many addresses.
> They resorted to using NATed private IPs for most of their network,
> which is causing problems for their end user customers.
> 
> Now that we are working with them, I am trying to find a solution to
> get them public IPs. They are also soon to be multi-homed (They have 2
> connections, but no BGP yet). As an ISP, it would be best for them to
> have PI space.
> 
> The issue is that one of the requirements for getting PI space from
> ARIN is that you are already using Public space that was assigned to
> you from an upstream provider. I spoke with someone from ARIN who says
> there is no way around this. The need around a /19 of space, and I
> cannot find any way to get it for them. The upstream providers refuse
> to give them any.
> 
> What can be done about this?  Would would there be a requirement of
> already using someone else's IP space to get your own? That seems like
> a complete waste of time, effort, money, and IPs!
> 
> -Randy
> 
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