RE: ARIN sucks? was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-14 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Lasher, Donn wrote: approved on the first try. I personally have a 0% success rate, and I spent a year or two in college I assume you mean 0% success on first submission of the template. My experience has usually been that I don't give them quite enough detail on t

RE: ARIN sucks? was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-14 Thread Lasher, Donn
Jack Wrote: >I'm curious why you converted to RWHOIS. I SWIP'd my entire network to get my assignments. Many large ISPs still SWIP. > I didn't have time to mess with RWHOIS. Control. Auditing. We got tired of spending countless resources trying to keep track of what we had, what ARIN thought we

Re: ARIN sucks? was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-14 Thread virendra rode //
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alain Hebert wrote: > >Hi, > >All our experiences consulting our clients about how to get their AS > and Subnets have been pretty easy and fast. > >First get enought IP from 2 Peer to justify at least a /21; > >Now that you have

Re: ARIN sucks? was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-14 Thread Alain Hebert
Hi, All our experiences consulting our clients about how to get their AS and Subnets have been pretty easy and fast. First get enought IP from 2 Peer to justify at least a /21; Now that you have 2 Peer, request the AS and a Subnet from ARIN; Take a day or 2 to prepare the pap

Re: ARIN sucks? was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-14 Thread Jack Bates
Lasher, Donn wrote: YMMV, but my mileage has been just as bad yours, in some cases worse. Converting from swip's to RWHOIS took 6 months. ARIN is painful. Overly painful for someone who you pay for the right to USE IP addresses on a yearly basis Of course, that's just my personal viewpoi

RE: ARIN sucks? was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-14 Thread Lasher, Donn
>Richard A Steenbergen wrote: >>Try looking at it from an outsider's point of view instead. If you're >>new to dealing with ARIN, it is not uncommon to find the process is >>absolutely baffling, frustrating, slow, expensive, and requiring >>intrusive disclosure just shy of an anal cavity probe

Re: ARIN sucks? was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Hank Nussbacher
Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Try looking at it from an outsider's point of view instead. If you're new to dealing with ARIN, it is not uncommon to find the process is absolutely baffling, frustrating, slow, expensive, and requiring intrusive disclosure just shy of an anal cavity probe. I r

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:46:11PM -0400, > Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > to dissect a core dump, or how BGP works, but who at the > > same time are not interested in reading the ARIN policy > manual

ARIN sucks? was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Albert Meyer
I've heard the horror stories, and I remember that ARIN was difficult to deal with 10 years ago, but my recent experiences with them have been relatively painless. I expected the process to get worse as IPs become more scarce, but I haven't been seeing that. AFAICT they are more helpful and ea

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:46:11PM -0400, Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 45 lines which said: > It's confusing to me that there appears to be no shortage of people > who are prepared to learn the three hundred ways of doing the same > thing with perl, or how to dissect a core

allocations from ARIN was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ever notice the only folks happy with the status quo are > the few who have already have an intimate knowledge of > the ARIN allocation process, and/or have the right > political connections to resolve the "i

Re: ip reclamation was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: "william(at)elan.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> The fact that there is a lot of space > assigned/allocated >> and not used in any easily > observable way is well known >> to those who track the > address exhaustion issue, I >> think. > > How much, th

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Martin Hannigan
Michael [mumble] spewed: > >ARIN does have a way of figuring out that the space >is no longer in use. No, they don't. ARIN has problems around v4 allocation that need to be fixed for sure. I fit ras's mold of a person who is part of the machine and (I'll take a STEAK dinner ras, thank you) I

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Jack Bates
Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Ever notice the only folks happy with the status quo are the few who have already have an intimate knowledge of the ARIN allocation process, and/or have the right political connections to resolve the "issues" that come up when dealing with them? Try looking at it

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
> Ever notice the only folks happy with the status quo are the few who have > already have an intimate knowledge of the ARIN allocation process, and/or > have the right political connections to resolve the "issues" that come up > when dealing with them? In this case, the "right political co

RE: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
> "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" could > be replaced with "From each according to the ARIN fee schedule, to each > according to our impossible to decipher allocation templates". Marx would be > proud! Centrally managed economic systems seem so wonderful on

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
> The fact that there is a lot of space assigned/allocated and not used > in any easily observable way is well known to those who track the > address exhaustion issue, I think. The fact that addresses are not used in an observable way does not imply that the addresses are not used at all. It si

RE: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
> It seems to me that this nicely illustrates a major problem with the > current system. Here we have large blocks of IP space that, by their > own rules, ARIN should take back. It all sounds nice on paper, but > clearly there is a hole in the system whereby ARIN doesn't know and > apparently ha

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Tom Vest
On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:46 PM, Joe Abley wrote: In any kind of free market system, competition would have bitchslapped the current ARIN way of doing things a long, long time ago. I'm not an economist, and this is not a policy list, so I have nothing to say about that here. Wrong, on all

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Joe Abley
Le 2006-09-12 à 19:52, Richard A Steenbergen a écrit : Ever notice the only folks happy with the status quo are the few who have already have an intimate knowledge of the ARIN allocation process, and/or have the right political connections to resolve the "issues" that come up when dealin

Re: ip reclamation was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote: How much, though, is used, but not routed publically? --- TOTAL FOR IPV4 BLOCKS: Allocated: 9302367 (/24 blocks) - 63% Not Allocated: 5377697 (/24 blocks) - 37% Currently Routed: 6183529 (/24 blocks) - 42% Not Routed: 84965

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 06:55:11PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: I find the references to alleged, inherent difficulties with the ARIN resource assignment process increasingly tedious. Even if the templates were "impossible to decipher", th

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 06:55:11PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > > I find the references to alleged, inherent difficulties with the ARIN > resource assignment process increasingly tedious. Even if the > templates were "impossible to decipher", this isn't the forum to > discuss them. > > In my

Re: ip reclamation was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Scott Weeks wrote: - Original Message Follows - From: Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Le 2006-09-12 à 15:10, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : It makes me wonder just how much space like that there is out there artifically increasing IP scarcity

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Joe Abley
Le 2006-09-12 à 17:21, Daniel Golding a écrit : "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" could be replaced with "From each according to the ARIN fee schedule, to each according to our impossible to decipher allocation templates". I find the references to all

ip reclamation was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Le 2006-09-12 à 15:10, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > a écrit : > > > It makes me wonder just how much space like that there > > is out there artifically increasing IP scarcity. > > The fact that there is a lot

RE: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Daniel Golding
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Adi Linden > > Here is a very good point of why ip space should not be a property traded > on an open market. To me ip space is like a house number or a telephone > number. A resource required and use

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Joe Abley
Le 2006-09-12 à 15:10, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : It makes me wonder just how much space like that there is out there artifically increasing IP scarcity. The fact that there is a lot of space assigned/allocated and not used in any easily observable way is well known

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once this subject took off on nanog, I have been oversaturated with people trying to "sell" me ip space. I have had offers for several /16's for 10,000.00 each that are no longer in use by the companies who "own" lol them. It seems to

RE: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that this nicely illustrates a major problem with the current system. Here we have large blocks of IP space that, by their own rules, ARIN should take back. It all sounds nice on paper, but clearly there is a hole in the system wher

RE: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread andrew2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Once this subject took off on nanog, I have been > oversaturated with people trying to "sell" me ip space. I > have had offers for several /16's for 10,000.00 each that are > no longer in use by the companies who "own" lol them. It seems to me that this nicely illus

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Adi Linden
> Once this subject took off on nanog, I have been oversaturated with people > trying to "sell" me ip space. I have had offers for several /16's for > 10,000.00 each that are no longer in use by the companies who "own" lol > them. I want to say to those people that made those offers to me

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Chris Jester
> "Chris Jester, the owner of hosting service provider Split Infinity, has > been working with Kremen in trying to locate Cohen, whom Jester says is > currently in Tijuana." > http://www.avnonline.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Web_Exclusive_News&Action=Print_Article&Content_ID=242417 > > ---in