[members-discuss] why is it proving impossible to gain IP sapce

hi,

We have a /21 IP4 and a /32 IP6 and need more IP4... We appreciate the 
IP4 pool is very low...but...

We have been trying to gain more IP4 , a /21 would be good, /20 idealy 
as equipment vendors and partners are unfortunately not yet up to speed 
with IP6 for production use here and therefore we need more IP4 to 
bridge this gap.

The issue is that it is proving impossible to gain any IP4, it is clear 
that we have allocated all we have and are now forced to "rent" IP space 
from other LIR's in order to bridge the gap.

Can somebody tell me why we are paying to be an LIR but are unable to 
gain modest extra resources above our initial allocation 3 years ago and 
therefore having to resort to renting space privately?

Perhaps somebody could clarify this please as the last request got to a 
point where it was clarified that all the /21 is allocated and 
then....nothing...  We even were told we had last had an additional 
allocation in 2010 which is not true as we joined in 2009 and that is 
when we gained the initial and only blocks we have.

Our first alloc just pushes us into the Small category on its own due to 
being a recent-ish LIR and therefore an extra block is unlikely to 
increase our fees, is this why?


cheers

Bill
uk.kijoma