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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For a customer of an ISP that meets the following criteria:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1) has registered an ASN and will be multi-homed to two or more ISPs,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2) cannot reasonably justify the use of a /24 within 3 - 6 months based on ARIN IP allocation policies and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3) the customer is obtaining IP space from one of their ISPs.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In my view, such a customer will require at least a /24 so that their network advertisement will be accepted by all ISPs since most ISPs will not accept advertisements from their peers of networks have a netmask any longer than a /24.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is it acceptable, in ARIN's view, to assign a /24 to such a customer? I never came across any documentation at www.arin.net that discusses such a situation.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks, </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jon Foreman</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">BBO - Data Install</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">jforeman@bbo.com</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Desk: 703.641.6451</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mobile: 703.403.4263</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Pager: 7034034263@message.bam.com</FONT>
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