Pretty much the only hard and fast rule is you need to be multihomed. If you are not multihomed you don't need ARIN and should be getting the IP space from your upstream provider.
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:21 PM, heith petersen <wi...@mncomm.com> wrote: > Well, I have several pops but from the same provider. I have a /20. All > are allocated to routers, likely using close to 70%. I would need to dig in > a little deeper. Some of our space we allocated to others that we resell > bandwidth to, kind of gets a little messy > > heith > > *From:* Mike Hammett <wispawirel...@ics-il.net> > *Sent:* Thursday, October 03, 2013 11:47 AM > *To:* WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] ARIN numbers > > ARIN has little to nothing to do with the US Government. Maybe only > historical, if it exists. > > You should multi-home anyway. > > How many IPs do you have? > > How many IPs are you using? > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"heith petersen" <wi...@mncomm.com> > *To: *"WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > *Sent: *Thursday, October 3, 2013 11:37:21 AM > *Subject: *[WISPA] ARIN numbers > > Kind of late in the game for this question, but has anyone been able to > successfully acquire IP space from ARIN? I have read that they have 1 > full/8 & 3/4 of another /8. We have always received our IPs from our > upstream provider, and where I live there are not a lot of other choices > for providers. Honestly, we may have been lulled into thinking that we were > to small to get our own space, or we needed to be multi-homed. > > I have read on the website that we could fairly easily qualify, as far as > what is currently percentage wise utilized. I need to start shifting all > our networks to be fully routed and would be nice to have our own space. > Our provider is fairly big in the upper plains, however things may change > were we need to shift, or maybe get a second provider. > > I assume that since ARIN is a non-profit organization that they would not > be affected by the current government shut down. I could be wrong. I see > they will be represented at WISPALooza this year. I was hoping to get a > little input on current success from others before I put in a lot more > research > > thanks in advance > > heith > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >
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