On Jul 17, 2013, at 5:00 PM, William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jul 17, 2013, at 4:34 PM, William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What about Comcast? They're in the business of providing cable >>> television service. They'll also provide you with Internet access on >>> the same coax cable with the modem they rent you. >>> >>> ISP or end-user? >> >> The service is intended to be used to connect customer-owned >> equipment to the internet. As such, they are clearly in the LIR/ISP realm. > > Starbucks, Hilton, they have large sections of the operation dedicated > to connecting customer-owned equipment to the Internet. You said: >
Permit me to rephrase… The service (in the case of Comcast) is intended to connect customer-owned networking equipment to the internet (e.g. routers, bridges, etc.). In the case of Starbucks, Hilton, etc., the expectation is that you are connecting a terminal host and not a packet forwarding device. >> Each Starbucks itself is more like an end-user. They never register the >> addresses to the users and the users are making very transient use of those >> addresses. > > So does that mean that an ISP generally leases Internet service monthy > or yearly but and end-user only leases Internet service hourly or > daily? See above. I think getting into this level of semantic detail is a clear case of reductio ad absurdum. Owen _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
