Re: Confederation Question: What is an Internet Service Provider? (apnic
Hi,
>Who are eligible for membership? The document states that only Internet
>Service Providers, commercial and non-commercial, can join. Does
>this eliminate the possibility of say, universities, joining? Or,
>can they be considered as a non-commercial ISP (providing services
>to the faculty and student body).
We define service providers to be an organization who give out address
space to their customers and call themselves to be an ISP. Thus no
matter the organization is commercial or non-commercial entity, if the
organization uses the obtained address space to their customers, the
organization is an ISP. As for the university, the idea is the same.
However, unless the university keeps growing, I am not sure if it
is worthwhile to become a member of the confederation or APNIC.
It also depends on the size of the organization(university).
>So, if a university wants to multihome between two or more providers,
>and needs provider-independent space should it go straight to APNIC?
They can obtain IP address space from any of their ISPs. However, if
they so wish, they may become a member of APNIC.
Regards,
Yoshiko -APNIC hostmaster
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