Scaling ARIN proposal for small ISPs - and economic reality

[David R. Conrad]

>I thought the purpose of charging fees for IP addresses is to discourage
>such waste?

Nope.  It is to fund the registry.

>This arbitrarily high barrier to entry into the ISP market is
>anticompetitive on its face, and will never pass legal muster. If the mom-n-
>pop ISPs don't kill it, the Justice Dept. will.

Mom-n-pop ISPs generally get their addresses from their upstream
providers.  They should not be significantly affected by the ARIN
fees.

Regards,
-drc