ARIN-discuss Message

[arin-discuss] Is a review of fee structure called for due toimpending IPv4 runout?

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> >   It will cost more to adminster IPv4 because rather
> > than going to a list of IPv4 that has never been used,
> > ARIN will have to spend labor verifying that the dirty
> > IPv4 coming in is indeed not in use, valid to give out,
> > etc.

There is also a broader issue of "dirty": I tried to get some
non-portable space recently, and it was on so many spam blacklists it
was unuseable.  I'm not sure this is the place for a solution, but it's
an even bigger issue that needs to be addressed.