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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ARIN IP allocation questionn
>My *personal* opinion is that wise ISPs only punt customers to ARIN once >they reach the point where they can, in fact, have a normal ARIN netblock >assigned directly to them (currently a /20, unless I slept through another >change...) The guidelines have a strong preference for singly-homed networks to use IP address space allocated to them from their upstreams. I can think of no logical reason* an ISP would prefer their customers to go to ARIN rather than deal with them. The global routing table is better off for it as well, as the customer's /20 would be a new route, rather than being included in their provider's presumably larger block. On the other hand, I can think of many reasons a customer would prefer to deal with ARIN than their upstream, assuming the meager cost wasn't a factor and they don't mind polluting the global table a tad. Of course, that's not really an operational issue. DS * The only reason I could possibly think of is if the ISP is afraid that the large allocation will impact their future allocations because they don't have the confidence or competence to extract a proper justification from their customer and present/defend that justification to ARIN when their next allocation comes up. But this wasn't the reason you were thinking of, right?
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