Sure. We call those companies "resellers". Or, if they actually do bring some additional value to the table, they're VARs. Not ISPs. Matt On Jul 11, 2014 10:37 AM, "Scott Helms" <khelms@zcorum.com> wrote:
Matt,
That's simply not true, if it were then several million US subscribers wouldn't have access to the Internet at all. There are _lots_ of small providers that serve rural America (and Canada) that have gotten their IPs from their transit provider rather than ARIN, are single homed, and have never considered getting an ASN because it doesn't do anything for them.
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Jima <nanog@jima.us> wrote:
[...] I guess I'm just glad that my home ISP can justify anteing up for a pipe to SIX, resources for hosting OpenConnect nodes, and, for that matter, an ASN. Indeed, not everyone can.
Jima
I'm sorry. If your ISP doesn't have an ASN, it's not an ISP. Full stop.
There *are* some fundamental basics that are necessary to function as an ISP; having an AS number and being able to speak BGP are pretty much at the top of the list.
If you cannot manage to obtain and support an AS number as an ISP, it is probably time to consider closing up shop and finding another line of work.
Matt