more specific routes in today reality

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:31:39 +0200
Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:

(..snip..)

> Jan was complaining that it's too expensive to become a LIR.  I put
> that cost into relation to the cost people have to pay anyway if they
> want to do *proper* multihoming, or put more precisely, be part of the
> default-free zone.  And compared to that cost, becoming a LIR should be
> the least of your worries.

Well. Forcing PI owners to get involved within the RIPE would help all.
Even sharing their experience (from business view) and teaching them
(through ripe meetings & courses etc) would help everybody. And a "PI LIR"
(NOT enterprise LIR) would bring some money back to RIPE helping the community
as a whole.

> I do not advocate that everybody that wants to have globally visible
> address space become a LIR.  It is one way, for ISPs it's a good way
> (because it means you can handle address requirements of your 
> customers in a practical and direct way), but for other entities it
> might be the wrong way.   But *costs* are not a good criterium to 
> decide that.

ACK, but it would solve a lot of problems. Solutions are not always good
for all, but for most of all.

Gerd, i think we should work more close together on this issue to address
some of the issues as a draft to ripe.

--jan


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