Jordan dijo [Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:01:28AM -0700]:
I've had a similar experience at my university in the states. While they acknowledge overall public benefit, I was denied, citing the overhead of abuse complaints and "potential for subverting university firewalls" (their words...) as justification for rejection.
They did, however, note if I were to bring my own addresses, they might be able to convince the board of regents network administrators to announce my prefix and allow me to handle complaints on my own. They perceived my potential leveraging of university transit as exclusive and distinct (and more secure?) than polluting their precious (and largely unused) /16, and had no interest in granting a lowly undergrad access to their beloved sanctuary.
"Bringing your own address"? Well, I will look into how to get that. I guess I could try again asking my university network to route my non-university's block (we have two almost full /16s; I was requesting an IP in a third range we have that's not usually associated with the university).