В сообщении от четвер 12 травень 2005 16:55 Elmar K. Bins написал(a):
Well, if you have like, say, dialup customers, you may easily set aside a dialup-pool, enter this - registered to yourself (the ISP) - into the RIPE DB, and everything's fine.
Yes, but it is good for the large group of small customers. But major customers have to have (at least officially must) their assignment into the RIPE DB.
I do not know how it is in Russia currently, but in Germany, the cost of an Internet connection is not only experienced through the retail price, but through other factors (services given, support, uptime, quality) as well. If you are on a bargaining market, you might stick to dialup/dynamic access and go the "best practice" I described above. If you want to deliver quality Internet, this quality thing does not only go towards your customer, it has to be brought towards the Internet (here: The RIPE community), too.
Quality can't be meansured and compared, so everybody says they have the best ;) -- WBR, Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253@FIDO)