13 Nov
2002
13 Nov
'02
7:29 p.m.
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.
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