Question about 'portability'

[David R Huberman]

All ARIN allocations are inherently non-portable.

Always have been :>

/david

 
>  This is a fairly simple question, although no one I have approached seems
>  to know the answer.
> 
>  Just because ARIN has deemed a network to be 'portable' does not give an
>  end user any rights to the network, correct?  My thinking is that if ARIN
>  has allocated address space to an ISP, and the ISP assigns/allocates a
>  network further downstream, the end user to whom the network has been
>  assigned has no inherent rights to the network just because its portable.