[[lug] DSL, static IPs and the hunt for red october.]

[Jeffrey B. Siegal]

Kevin wrote:
> If you are lucky enough to have
> portable IP's, then you can indeed get them to move to a new
> ISP. There is usually a lot of hassle involved in this, and fees from
> arin. See: http://www.arin.net/regserv/transfer.html

This is incorrect.  That kind of transfer request is used to transfer
control ("ownership") over IP space from one organization to another,
not transfer routing from one ISP to another.