Max Tulyev wrote:
You need a /28 and want "Provider Independence". I use a /28 at home.
Hope you do not host thousands of websites at home ;)
Some hosts have http/https/imaps and other services running. But all it takes to move them away is changing DNS. Nothing more.
Lets say that I want "PI" too, that would mean I am going to get, pay for and maintain: - Multiple Redundant Routers - Multiple Redundant Links - Multiple Redundant Transits - Own 24/7 NOC (things will fail) - and a lot more...
You are willing to do and pay for all that, but don't want to become an LIR?
In this example I'm providing hosting and no more than hosting. No telecoms, no transit channels, no ADSL. May be domain registration.
To make that business success I need to be multihomed (no objections at this point, I think?). Also I need to be independent from carriers (especially when hosting grows up and I will ask for money for direct peering with me).
But I do NOT need a lot of address space (thanks God and RFC, we have HTTP/1.1 this time).
RIR's "business" is about providing LOTS of address space. LIR's provide little address space to endusers and in the above you are an enduser. I suggest you start providing SSL based HTTP. Then you probably need 256 IP's in a sinch. And guess what 256 domains on HTTPS means you have 200 customers. Check the allocations list and see what kind of 'companies' already are LIR and are already
Look more. http://www.ripe.net/membership/benefits.html As a hosting provider, I do NOT want any of that services. So no reasons to be LIR, isn't it?
You don't want: 8<------------------- Registration Services As a member, you can request Internet Resources (IP address space, AS Numbers, Reverse Delegation) from the RIPE NCC. ------------------->8 ??? For your case the answer is simple: get your address space from an LIR. Otherwise draft a proposal for an "enduser-LIR" who can only get 1 AS and 1 prefix for themselves. Greets, Jeroen