ARIN IP/AS Assignment

2010-10-02 Thread Imran Moin
Hello All,

I was wondering how long it is taking ARIN these days to assign new IP block
and AS Number. We are a new startup and looking to build our network over
the next few months.

Thanks,
Imran.


Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment

2010-10-02 Thread Bret Clark

We just had to get another new block, took about 5 days.

On 10/02/2010 03:17 AM, Imran Moin wrote:

Hello All,

I was wondering how long it is taking ARIN these days to assign new IP block
and AS Number. We are a new startup and looking to build our network over
the next few months.

Thanks,
Imran.
   





Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment

2010-10-02 Thread Heath Jones
On 2 October 2010 08:17, Imran Moin imranm...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello All,

 I was wondering how long it is taking ARIN these days to assign new IP block
 and AS Number. We are a new startup and looking to build our network over
 the next few months.

I think they are a bit preoccupied at the moment... ;)


ps. I'm not really sure of their timescales..



Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment

2010-10-02 Thread Joel Jaeggli
The longest part of our 2009 prefix assignment was getting our accounts payable 
system to handle the additional supplier.

If you have all of you documentation in order you can easily run through the 
process in two weeks.

Joel's widget number 2

On Oct 2, 2010, at 3:19, Bret Clark bcl...@spectraaccess.com wrote:

 We just had to get another new block, took about 5 days.
 
 On 10/02/2010 03:17 AM, Imran Moin wrote:
 Hello All,
 
 I was wondering how long it is taking ARIN these days to assign new IP block
 and AS Number. We are a new startup and looking to build our network over
 the next few months.
 
 Thanks,
 Imran.
   
 
 



Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment

2010-10-02 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Imran Moin imranm...@gmail.com wrote:
 I was wondering how long it is taking ARIN these days to assign new IP block
 and AS Number. We are a new startup and looking to build our network over
 the next few months.

Imran,

The last few times I ran through the process, the hardest part was
getting ARIN to accept the ORG registration.One time we'd let the
state business registration expire by mistake. And the state
registration name didn't exactly match the business name. ARIN's much
more rigid about that sort of thing than any other supplier you'll
ever deal with.

Separately, I had all kinds of fun registering myself as an
organization so I could get an AS number to route my legacy /23. ARIN
asked for proof of the organization's legal existence so I faxed them
a copy of my driver's license.

On the plus side, you don't have to have your network plans done to
start the org registration. So start it early.

Getting addresses after that was relatively straightforward. I did
find it useful to have a friendly eye from one of my upstreams look
over the request document and make suggestions. Say things the right
way the first time so you don't raise any red flags and you tend to
get what you ask for.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



-- 
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3005 Crane Dr. .. Web: http://bill.herrin.us/
Falls Church, VA 22042-3004



Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment

2010-10-02 Thread Brielle Bruns

On 10/2/10 1:17 AM, Imran Moin wrote:

Hello All,

I was wondering how long it is taking ARIN these days to assign new IP block
and AS Number. We are a new startup and looking to build our network over
the next few months.



It took only a few days to be assigned our AS number, but that was after 
hair pulling, head banging on desk, and 
i-want-to-drink-every-night-after-work for a week or two while we 
figured out how to work around the circular You need to have two 
upstreams first before we will assign an AS rule but providers 
can't/won't peer with you without one in the first place reality.


I wish you luck :)


--
Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org



Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment

2010-10-02 Thread Jon Lewis

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Brielle Bruns wrote:

It took only a few days to be assigned our AS number, but that was after hair 
pulling, head banging on desk, and i-want-to-drink-every-night-after-work for 
a week or two while we figured out how to work around the circular You need 
to have two upstreams first before we will assign an AS rule but providers 
can't/won't peer with you without one in the first place reality.


It's been a while since I've applied for an ASN...but used to be you just 
put on the form that you've ordered connectivity from multiple providers 
with the intent of multihoming, and that was good enough for ARIN.  If 
that's no longer good enough, I would think any understanding provider 
would let you setup the peering connection first, assign it a /30, and 
then wait for you to get your ASN to do the BGP part.


--
 Jon Lewis, MCP :)   |  I route
 Senior Network Engineer |  therefore you are
 Atlantic Net|
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Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment

2010-10-02 Thread Owen DeLong
Usually this is easily solved with letters of intent to peer upon AS issuance
from the two providers. Most providers will do this for you fairly easily.

Owen

On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote:

 On 10/2/10 1:17 AM, Imran Moin wrote:
 Hello All,
 
 I was wondering how long it is taking ARIN these days to assign new IP block
 and AS Number. We are a new startup and looking to build our network over
 the next few months.
 
 
 It took only a few days to be assigned our AS number, but that was after hair 
 pulling, head banging on desk, and i-want-to-drink-every-night-after-work for 
 a week or two while we figured out how to work around the circular You need 
 to have two upstreams first before we will assign an AS rule but providers 
 can't/won't peer with you without one in the first place reality.
 
 I wish you luck :)
 
 
 -- 
 Brielle Bruns
 The Summit Open Source Development Group
 http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org




Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment

2010-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
We received our ASN in 2004 with a justification of intend to multihome.

Jeff

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote:
 On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Brielle Bruns wrote:

 It took only a few days to be assigned our AS number, but that was after
 hair pulling, head banging on desk, and
 i-want-to-drink-every-night-after-work for a week or two while we figured
 out how to work around the circular You need to have two upstreams first
 before we will assign an AS rule but providers can't/won't peer with you
 without one in the first place reality.

 It's been a while since I've applied for an ASN...but used to be you just
 put on the form that you've ordered connectivity from multiple providers
 with the intent of multihoming, and that was good enough for ARIN.  If
 that's no longer good enough, I would think any understanding provider would
 let you setup the peering connection first, assign it a /30, and then wait
 for you to get your ASN to do the BGP part.

 --
  Jon Lewis, MCP :)           |  I route
  Senior Network Engineer     |  therefore you are
  Atlantic Net                |
 _ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_





-- 
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jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net
Black Lotus Communications - AS32421
First and Leading in DDoS Protection Solutions



Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment

2010-10-02 Thread John Curran
On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:28 AM, William Herrin wrote:

 The last few times I ran through the process, the hardest part was
 getting ARIN to accept the ORG registration.One time we'd let the
 state business registration expire by mistake. And the state
 registration name didn't exactly match the business name. ARIN's much
 more rigid about that sort of thing than any other supplier you'll
 ever deal with.

The compliment is received and appreciated.  :-)

/John




Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment

2010-10-02 Thread Brielle Bruns

On 10/2/10 10:59 AM, Jon Lewis wrote:

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Brielle Bruns wrote:


It took only a few days to be assigned our AS number, but that was
after hair pulling, head banging on desk, and
i-want-to-drink-every-night-after-work for a week or two while we
figured out how to work around the circular You need to have two
upstreams first before we will assign an AS rule but providers
can't/won't peer with you without one in the first place reality.


It's been a while since I've applied for an ASN...but used to be you
just put on the form that you've ordered connectivity from multiple
providers with the intent of multihoming, and that was good enough for
ARIN. If that's no longer good enough, I would think any understanding
provider would let you setup the peering connection first, assign it a
/30, and then wait for you to get your ASN to do the BGP part.

Long story, but the short of it is we were planning our IPv6 deployment, 
and because of several issues couldn't get native ipv6 to our main 
cabinet.  Given our low budget nature, another drop was not feasable 
just to appease the ARIN rules, so it took time to brainstorm a plan of 
action.


To do things the right way, yeah it made it harder and required 
coordination and the help of the guys at HE.  But, the key being we 
followed the rules and didn't try to game the system - we're multihomed 
now, just not in the traditional way. :)


This comes back to the whole thing where the people who try do things 
the right way always seem to have the biggest hassle, yet while those 
are who are less honest, seem to get everything.


--
Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org