Who do you go to, when you've spent a year detailing everything ARIN wants
when you ask for address space, then they decide to flush an installed and
operating $2B business plan "just because".
You hire a consultant who is intelligent enough to know how to negotiate
without hanging out your dirty linen on a public mailing list.
Anyone who has 2 billion dollars and cannot justify portable address space
has a screw loose somewhere. Last time I was involved in a startup that
applied for address space we managed to justify it at around the same time
our spending had reached 1 million dollars.
It's not about your budget, or your plans. It's all about "What have you
done, and how fast have you used the /19 your provider gave you."
This is one of the few places in the world where millionares and bag
ladies get treated equally (poorly).
Greg U
And when both millionaires and bag ladies cry "foul" I am happy that
ARIN are most likely doing the right job. They will never do right in
the eyes of their "customers" regardless of how hard or not they work.
Regards,
Well I have to say that we applied for space from Arin in November and the
entire process took less than a month and was very simple. We got our info
together, sent it in, they replied with a need for more specific details on
certain things, we gave it to them and sent them a check and voila! We have
our IP space...
Tim
ARIN bases their policy upon input from their membership, or so
I am led to believe by their staff. They didn't just arbitrarily pick /19
(/20 currently) as being cutoff. In addition, they have no say in what makes
space routable. That is set semi-arbitrarily by your (or someone else's) NSP.
As noted in an earlier post, there will be a public policy meeting
for ARIN in October. If you don't like current policy come express your
views.
Austin