There are hundreds of ISPs with under 500 customers. More start up every week. No need to marginalize them. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us> To: "Justin Wilson" <lists@mtin.net> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 4:48:40 PM Subject: Re: IPv4 smaller than /24 leasing? On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Justin Wilson <lists@mtin.net> wrote:
I know of dozens, if not hundreds of small ISPs that can’t participate in BGP because they don’t have big enough blocks.
Hi Justin, Not much of an ISP if they can't get a /24. We're talking about a one-time market purchase under $5000 and the ARIN justification for that small a block almost writes itself. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>