[arin-ppml] Justifying an ISP /22

[Scott Leibrand]

(Moving this over to a new thread on PPML to discuss the policy aspects...)

Serge,

Do you have any other ideas for how to justify that an ISP really needs a /22 from the free pool, that would be easier than getting PA, using it, and then remembering? 

Or, let's say you could get a /22 from the transfer market with minimal justification (just that you're an actual network operator, say). Would it have been worth your while to pay market price for the addresses and avoid the application and renumbering hassles?

Scott

On Apr 16, 2013, at 4:36 PM, "Serge  Paquin" <serge at skycomp.ca> wrote:

> As for the Barrier to Entry; I don't believe it is the fees so much (The fee was not our issue at all) as the very hard time to justify the initial /22 allocation. Until you already have space swiped to you from your ISP and in production you can't get a direct assignment since you can't prove need.
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> Then when you get your allocation you have a timeframe to renumber your now production clients into the new space and hand back your ISP allocated space.
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> We did this a couple years ago and it was a major undertaking in additional costs of staff, tech support and scheduling to work with each client to renumber.
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> It was a business decision that we'd be a more stable and healthy company having our own IP space and set forth with that goal in mind and accepted the cost but it was a lot more than the ARIN fees.
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> I do have to say that the ARIN support staff were helpful and we had no issues dealing with them.  We just had to meet all the criteria before they could issue us a direct allocation of course.
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> Serge.
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