Jeroen Wunnink wrote: [..]
Yes of course he can become a LIR, but that's a lot more expensive for him. Our customer is trying to start his own network and if he can start doing some of the routing himself.
http://www.ripe.net/membership/billing/procedure.html Extra Small: 1300 EUR / year So, he is able to buy routing kit, hookups to IXs,, tansit and those things, but a LIR fee of 1300 EUR is too much? :) Drink a few less beers every week and you have that together. Sorry to say, but thinking of it from an ops perspective I do hope that this customer also has a correctly working abuse desk and people who are monitoring this network gear. (which means they have to caugh up for people and other resources there too which far exceeds those little fees). Because if they don't they are just another nuisance on the Internet.... (not that money should stop people from being able to use it mind you) Greets, Jeroen (okay, another 2k signup... but what is the deal, you can barely buy 1 proper 1U box for that total amount)