🚀 go-pugleaf

> ISPs playing this game as an attempt to extort more money from people and
> circumvent the allocation guidelines should be reported to ARIN for two
> reasons - (1) you have no reason to pay for the addresses (the cost per
> address to the ISP even if they have to get an ARIN membership is on the 
> order of a one-time fee of $0.02 per IP number), and 

The rest of the post was accurate except the above. The above is not true
for ISP's. It is true for individual entities getting IP space from ARIN
but not ISP's, IPS's are billed the following.

ISP Subscriptions for Bulk Registrations

Small		$2500/year /24 - /19 
Medium 		$5000/year >/19 - /16 
Large 		$10K/year  >/16 - /14
X-Large		$20K/year  >/14

http://www.arin.net/feeschedule.html

It is surprising that someone on the ARIN AC does not know this. Oh well,
we will just not re-elect you when your term is up. Democracy is our
friend.