[arin-ppml] Using fees to encourage route aggregation

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Kevin Kargel wrote:
> 
> Regarding fees for behavior modification:
> ARIN properly charges reasonable fees for services provided.  This is well
> and good.  When ARIN starts to act like a government by emplacing mandatory
> taxes (artificial fees) to regulate behavior it will be bad. 

   Aside from the fact that the ARIN charter would have to be modified, 
it's been observed by many people in the past when this has come up
that in most larger orgs, the bills are paid by an accounting dept. not
by the admin, and are thus not effective as a means of modifying the
admin's behavior.

Ted