Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

On Sep 17, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:

> I have a small ISP customer who is not multi-homed, and is using about a /21 and a half of space, and is expanding. 
> Their upstream is refusing to give them more space, so they wanted to get their own, and give back the space to the 
> upstream, with the possible exception of a small block for their servers, which would be very difficult to renumber. 
> We explained this all, and the response we got from ARIN was that we needed to have a full /20 from the upstream, at 
> which time we could easily get a /20 of new space. In order to qualify for the immediate need, we would need to show 
> need for the entire /20, of which we would need to fully utilize (renumber into) within 30 days. That is not even 
> remotely possible.
>
> The problem with this whole thing is that I have no less than 4 ISPs that are in almost the same boat.

Randy - 
 
  If that policy is an issue for many of your customers, can you 
  please come up with an alternative policy for consideration by
  the community?  

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN