IPv6 Routing table will be bloated?

Tue Oct 26 20:03:36 UTC 2010

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 at 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
>