IP Addresses from a different region

Thu Jan 19 14:20:48 UTC 2006

Hi,

Long story short... I'm under some considerable pressure from management 
to obtain a /24 of addresses from ARIN. We are a UK based ISP that are, of 
course, members of RIPE. Is this possible? If I approach one of ARIN's 
LIRs can they obtain ARIN PI space for our client, and are their any 
volunteers? Or, is it the case, that being outside of ARIN's geographic 
reach that we can't approach them?

Short story long... This is for a client that currently has a USA based 
operation, that wants to consolidate everything in one of our colo 
centres. Their USA servers are involved in some of kind advertising system 
that attempts to do geographic location based on the IP address prefix. I 
am assured that traceroutes, SWIP data, and AS number play no part in this 
geographic lookup.

The client insists that they must have addresses from a prefix that appear 
to have been allocated by ARIN for this system to continue to work. The 
language barrier between us has been scrupering attempts by me to get more 
techincal information from them.

As usual management are interested in "solutions not problems" ;) and this 
deal is worth quite a bit of money. I hate to be contributing to the ever 
increasing PI swamp space, but unfortunately I don't pay my own wages.

Any suggestions?

Sam