[address-policy-wg] suggesting medium/big customers to become lirs is a good or a bad idea?

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Tiberiu Ungureanu wrote:

> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:50:47 -0500
> From: Tiberiu Ungureanu <tiberiu.ungureanu at ines.ro>
> To: address-policy-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: [address-policy-wg] suggesting medium/big customers to become lirs is
>      a good or a bad idea?
> 
> hello
>
> in the past week, at the ISP i work for i received 2 requests for /22
> each from customers that provide broadband services to end-users.
>
> i personally feel like this type of customers that have needs for such
> big chunks of ip space should be encouraged to become lirs, because
>
> * knowing their type of business it is very likely that they will
> request at least another /22 in about 1 year (or even less).
> * it is likely that they would want to be multihomed in the future, and
> it will be painful for them to renumber (well, if they do their homework
> will not be so painful, but it's a job they can avoid doing). anyway, at
> that point in time it is likely they will NEED to become lirs.
> * lirs pay money to ripe. the more payers, the more likely that the
> anual fees will be lower for everyone, or if they stay the same the more
> money RIPE-NCC will have to fund projects that will make our life
> easier.
>
> anyone else feels the same? should i go ahead and try to talk my
> management into talking them into becoming lirs? or do i just need a cup
> of coffee and/or more sleep?

We have done that already with several customers, at first they think it 
is difficult and look at the price, but when explaining the benefits and 
advantages it gets easier.


Rgds,

Ray