Re: Can a customer take IP's with them?

[Eric Gauthier <eric () roxanne org>]

> Only one customer?  There are a couple "consulting" firms in
> particular around here that use arbitrary space on internal
> networks.  Sometimes a currently-dark IP block is configured, so
> "it works for us".  It gets annoying after a while.

The worst one I've seen so far is Ticketmaster... last month.  If you want to
sell tickets through them and connect via the network, they require you to 
have a private, backend connection to them and then require you to route 
29.2.0.0/15, 29.4.0.0/15, and 29.6.0.0/16 via that connection.  I could be 
wrong, but somehow, I don't think that they are also known as or have received 
addresses from:

        OrgName:    DoD Network Information Center 
        OrgID:      DNIC
        Address:    7990 Science Applications Ct
        Address:    M/S CV 50
        City:       Vienna
        StateProv:  VA
        PostalCode: 22183-7000
        Country:    US
        NetRange:   29.0.0.0 - 29.255.255.255 
        CIDR:       29.0.0.0/8 
        NetName:    MILX25-TEMP
        NetHandle:  NET-29-0-0-0-1
        Parent:     
        NetType:    Direct Allocation
        Comment:    Defense Information Systems Agency
        Comment:    Washington, DC 20305-2000 US
        RegDate:    
        Updated:    2002-10-07

The argument of "what if one of the DoD research groups on campus is trying to 
connect to this space for classified work?" didn't work... especially given
that the blocks aren't in our BGP tables.  Alas, my protests failed against 
the might of our self-funding sports program.

Eric :)