[70282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Corporations becoming a LIR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold Nipper)
Thu May 6 18:37:35 2004
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 00:36:42 +0200
From: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
To: "Drumm, Dan" <ddrumm@ball.com>
Cc: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <947A015D7B9AF8479BC4832D3F6B6884030684@ballmsg01.cs.ball.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 07.05.2004 00:02 Drumm, Dan wrote:
> I was wondering, basically, if I have any chance at this? While RIPE
> clearly states the admission policy is open to any organization, in
> order to get PIR (Provider Independent routing) being a RIPE NCC is
> required, and I don't know if a corporation would have a shot.
> Currently, we are not an ARIN member, but hold the Class B.
>
There are a lot of companies not being ISP in an even larger sense which
are LIR. Just to name a few: SAP, Siemens, Bayer, Commerzbank, ... have
a look at
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/indices/index.html
IIRC in early days there was even an own category "Companies" with more
moderate fee.
If you nee help let me know,
Arnold -- AN45-RIPE
