request for help w/ ATT and terminology

Thu Jan 17 10:54:42 UTC 2008

> 2.  What's the technical terminology for the request for AT&T 
> to simply start advertising our netblock called?  I'm 
> wondering if they're not understanding our request.

You hit the nail on the head with that question. It's called a 
purchase order request. You bought vanilla Internet access which
uses AT&T's aggregate address announcements and now you want them
to provide a different service where they manage special announcements
for your address prefix. 

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

When dealing with large companies, you get cheap prices when you
buy standard products, not when you buy customized services.

--Michael Dillon

P.S. if your network is all in one cage, it can't be that difficult
to just renumber it all into AT&T address space.