[53412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: all the mails on Filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Wed Nov 13 19:29:58 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:29:23 -0500
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
In-Reply-To: <20021113211825.GA60794@gweep.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:45:15AM -0800, Harsha Narayan wrote:
[snip]
> But it appears that there are many cases where customers prefer
> to take a prefix from the ISP rather than an RIR even if it is a
> /19 or a /20 - for example from the /11 of a big ISP, there are 50
> /19s and /20s which are multihoming assignments.
>
> I was told that this saves the cost of RIR membership for the
> customer.
When shaving pennies, be sure you don't slice off your thumb. And
if you do, don't blame someone else.
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