SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

Tue Sep 6 20:43:39 UTC 2005

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Crist Clark wrote:

> As best I can tell from ARIN documents, ISP still are supposed to SWIP
> or use Rwhois for subassignments of /29 and greater. However, is this
> still widely practiced these days? Especially among smaller ISPs?

AFAIK, it is still required, but my own experience has been that some do, 
some do only in preparation for their next IP space request (i.e. fall 
behind on swips, then to a big catch-up before approaching ARIN for more 
space), and some just don't.  I have to wonder how that last group gets 
more space out of ARIN, since they don't follow the rules.

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