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direwolf20yesterday at 7:09 PM0 repliesview on HN

RIRs, not ISPs, allocate addresses at the top level, they make money on each address allocation, and they still won't allocate addresses to you if you don't multihome because they have a duty to conserve resources.

When you get PI addresses your LIR/ISP just passes your data on to the RIR.