more specific routes in today reality

 
> Jan was complaining that it's too expensive to become a LIR.  I put
> that cost into relation to the cost people have to pay anyway if they
> want to do *proper* multihoming, or put more precisely, be part of the
> default-free zone.  And compared to that cost, becoming a LIR should be
> the least of your worries.

.and as a brief sidenote: the ARIN community discussed the high entry
level fee as an effective barrier to entry for obtaining globally unique
prefixes. It was discussed that such a high cost helped protect the global
routing table from "contamination" by those with no bona fide engineering
goals and/or questionable motivations for injecting further routes.

/david