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