On 09/16/2011 04:34 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Randy Carpenter wrote: > > > If you go to ARIN, day one, and ask for address space, they have no > way of determining if your request is justified, beyond whatever > pie-in-the-sky guesses and growth projections you give them. You're > asking for address space, sight unseen, in this case. That would be > like someone going to a bank and asking for a loan, with no > documentation, collateral, or anything else to give the bank > confidence that they'll pay the loan back. > > That's why the slow-start model has been used, particularly for v4 space. > If you started off by getting PA space from one or more of your > upstreams, then there should be additional documentation to back up > your request (SWIP entries, RWHOIS data, etc). > > When I still worked in the ISP world, the startup I worked for started > off with PA space, and then grew into PI space, and handed the PA > space back to their upstreams as it was vacated. I had no problems > getting subsequent > PI blocks because our documentation was in order.
Alright. This seems fair. Easy enough to get some big chunks of v6 space from up streams and then justify the PI space. I shall have to do that then. -- Charles N Wyble char...@knownelement.com @charlesnw on twitter http://blog.knownelement.com Building alternative,global scale,secure, cost effective bit moving platform for tomorrows alternate default free zone.