-----Original Message----- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk@iname.com] Sent: 18 September 2011 23:14 To: 'Charles N Wyble'; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network
Where I live in rural America, I would not be surprised that someone who wanted to start an ISP might only be able to cost-justify one upstream. When one Internet T-1 is $1,200/month, getting a second T-1 for that price from another provider just to get an AS or PI is definitely cost-prohibitive and may go against their business plan.
Our own company has just one upstream provider (from geographically diverse POPs), our state's telecom coop, and to multi-home solely to meet ARIN's policy doesn't make sense. Fortunately we were using enough address space to meet the /20 requirement.
Charles, if you wrote a policy that allowed smaller ISPs to obtain a PI without the multihoming requirement if they demonstrated that multihoming was burdensome, I would support it at arin-ppml.
Frank
I'll happily 'multihome' anybody over a GRE tunnel if it helps ;-) -- Leigh ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________