Re: IPv6 Routing table will be bloated?

[Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven () cb3rob net>]

We also have various customers that only obtain LIR registration services 
and have no network links whatsoever with us (so just PI and/or AS 
registration, no transit or whatever)

which -is- what a LIR does.. operating a network has nothing to do with 
being a LIR per-se.

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Blake Dunlap wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 14:45, George Bonser <gbonser () seven com> wrote:
>
> > > Shared hosting ISPs also do not make subdelegations and generally
> > don't
> > > even uses the ips on a one-specific-customer-per-ip basis.
> >
> > But how do they multihome without an ASN?
> > If they have an ASN, how did they get it without going to an RIR and
> > paying a fee?
> Its not that hard to get an ASN, and all the work can be done by said ISP on
> behaf of the client, especially many years ago.
>
> The extent of one client's knowledge was to turn off a provider router if
> they were having problems, anything else was handled by us, even with the
> other ISPs of the client.
>
> -Blake