Well I have tried once again to obtain an IP block.  According to Internic,
they will not assign anything less 32 Class C address block's.  There rules
state anything less then you should see your upline provider.
Apparently I do not have the magic touch, nor does my ISP.  Sprint refuse to
assign another class C to my ISP unless he is 70% capacity.  They will not
assign me a a class unless I get connected directly through them.  At least
this how the Southern Sprint people are, not sure about the rest of the
country.
Dave
On Nov 29, 1997 03:41pm, MIKE BILOW wrote to DBONAMO:
 MB> DBONAMO wrote in a message to MIKE BILOW:
 D>> This may be true but I have read on cases in which Internic
 D>> has assigned a address block and the customer's upline ISP
 D>> was not/or willing to route it.
 D>> In our case my Upline advised me his upline(Sprint) would
 D>> not route anything other then what the assigned.
 MB> This is a private contractual matter between you and them.  If you are
 MB> unhappy with the service, get another provider.  Both MCI and Sprint
 MB> will route a standalone IP block, provided that it is correctly
 MB> assigned and registered. Most likely, your provider feels that it is in
 MB> their interest to make you use their non-portable addresses so that it
 MB> is harder to switch providers.
 MB> We have two standalone blocks routed, one through a provider who buys
 MB> directly through MCI and one through a provider who buys from DX.NET, a
 MB> small but first-tier ISP.  I can assure you that this can be done if
 MB> your provider wants it to be done, which they will if you make it a
 MB> provision of their contract.
 MB> Many ISPs do things which I consider to be outside the bounds of
 MB> ethics, such as listing themselves as the administrative contact for
 MB> domain registrations, instead of their customers.  All of these little
 MB> tactics are intended to make it harder to change ISPs.
 MB> -- Mike
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