up getting only one /24. Then another upstream provider, quite large, forced another /24 upon us. When we stated we didn't need/want it, they said they could take it back but it was not standard practice; all DS3 customers get a /24. Anyway... Think of all the other companies out there who get treated like this?
i would not make the argument that this is good, best practice, beneficial, ... but i have to whine that it is *very* hard in a large provider to make it clear to and easy for sales and provisioning folk to adequately determine what a customer can actually justify (in an rir sense) and provision thusly. to us it may be obvious that a residential dsl customer might have a bonkers gadget-crazed geek population that actually warrants a /25 while an oc3 turn-up who insists on a natting firewall only needs a /29. this is very hard to explain to a normal human being in sales/provisioning who has to do 20-50 of them a day, is underpaid, and who is completely disconnected from the physics and consequences of address allocation policy. randy