From: Andre Oppermann (no email)
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 06:10:01 EST
wrote:
>>>It's hard to imagine an organization who can afford to run
>>>a network using BGP to announce a class C block and not
>>>be able to afford $1250 per year.
>>
>>The Internet != for-profit-only corporate netspace.
>
> In that case, the organization is not an ISP which
> means that they are not growing which means that they
> don't need as much of ARIN's services, therefore they
> can swap their class C block for an ARIN /24 and only
> pay $100 as an end user. Presumably ARIN could be convinced
> to waive the one-time initial allocation fee in this case
> since the initial allocation happened years ago.
>
> Then, having joined the club that 99% of us belong to,
> they won't have any problems with using newer services
> like BGP cert signing.
The problem is *because* they are not ISP and don't have a clue
they'll use a lot of ARINs services. "Why doesn't this work,
how do I do that..." RIPE started requiring the x-ncc-regid
thing in email partly because of the newbie and clueless crowd.
-- Andre
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