Requesting P.I. Space from ARIN - latest issues?

Tue Oct 11 15:33:34 UTC 2005

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, up at 3.am wrote:

> 1) I meet the Multihoming requirement, which means I can get a block as
> small as a /22, which is about right for my needs.  Are there still any
> concerns about networks (as Verio and Sprint have done in the past)
> filtering out longer prefixes, and if so, does it depend on whether it;s
> former class A, B, C or swamp space?  I know when I got my current block
> from my upstream, I had to make sure I got swamp space, because the former
> class B block they initially allocated to me wouldn't have made it past
> Verio's filters at that time.

Most if not all of the /8s that get assigned to ARIN have a prescribed 
minimum allocation size.  How rigorously that is followed is another 
story :-)  I don't think you can specifically request that ARIN assign you 
space out of the swamp these days.

jms