On 1/19/16 10:12 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote:
Lucky you.
Here is what they told me on Oct 30 2015.
That was unfortunately just too late to get space from the free pool.
The IPv4 free pool hit zero on September 24, 2015 with warning flags out
much before that. Now all you can do with ARIN for IPv4 is to get on the
waiting list (good luck) and do the transfer pre-approval thing.
Next, prepare to get fucked on the secondary market. Big time. Everyone
that is selling IPv4 space knows they can screw you hard while you smile
and say "thank you kind sir, may I have another?", but I would like to
think it'll help spur IPv6 adoption.
Fortunately most of the major content generates whining is reachable on
IPv6. It might be worth your time to roll out IPv6 to your customers and
see if that helps. If you haven't started on that by now... well, trial
by fire time. Also, if you deploy IPv6 there is some IPv4 set aside at
ARIN to help with transitions you could still qualify for. Although they
could give you less than a /24 which IMO is just about useless unless
the rest of the world's BGP filter boundaries change.
The "nothing to lose" option is to work with your provider to allow
announcing your existing IPv4 assignments via BGP directly. They'll
still announce the aggregate but at the very least your AS will be
attached to the more specifics.
~Seth
