[arin-ppml] Revealing /32 customers?

[Randy Carpenter]

I work with several ISPs, and to my knowledge, none of them have ever been asked to provide any more information than what is already in SWIP/WHOIS, which would mean only /29 and shorter. In fact, I don't think they have ever been asked anything at all. I just assumed that since the SWIP/WHOIS data was already there, it was being used.

In many cases I have seen "/24 allocated as /32 static assignments to customers" be sufficient justification.

-Randy

----- Original Message -----
> Hi folks,
> 
> Paraphrasing a private message I received during a recent NANOG
> discussion:
> 
> "We have roughly 66 /32 customer assignments and a /24 for management
> addresses (switches, waps, wireless backhauls, servers, etc). Also a
> number of large assignments to DHCP pools.
> 
> ARIN not only asked for the 66 customer names once, when the company
> went back to ask for additional space after renumbering, they were
> asked for it again. ARIN asked nothing concerning the DHCP pools,
> which by themselves qualified the address space."
> 
> 
> My understanding was that our consensus policy is that an ISP is
> expected to reveal customer information about assignments of /29 and
> larger. So, this brings to mind two questions:
> 
> 1. Do current ARIN staff procedures have situations which place a
> mandatory requirement for an ISP to reveal (under NDA or otherwise)
> customers to whom less than a /29 of address spaces has been
> assigned?
> By "mandatory" I mean that ARIN staff will not accept an alternate
> form of demonstration that the /32 assignments are in use. The
> customer identities are required.
> 
> 2. If ARIN staff procedures are in fact as described in #1, from
> which
> NRPM policies do those particular procedures derive?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill Herrin
> 
> 
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