fwd ppml: ARIN asking about SWIP procedures

[J Bacher]

At 01:56 PM 1/4/01 -0500, Mark Mentovai wrote:

>The upstream might not be all that fond of its customer reselling service,
>and this may be taken into consideration by their contract, but the
>downstream is going to dole out the space regardless of their ability to
>SWIP subassignments.  I would think that it's in ARIN's interest to foster
>the maintenance of as accurate a database as possible, and leave quarrels
>over type of service between a provider and its customers to the provider

It is ARIN's responsibility to respect the wishes of the paying clients of 
those network blocks via that client's template submissions.

ARIN has no definitive way to prove that the changes being requested by the 
client's downstream are accurate.  That puts a burden on that body that it 
simply does not need.

It is the client's responsibility to ensure that the network blocks are 
appropriately SWIPed by its downstreams.