[arin-ppml] Using fees to encourage route aggregation

[William Herrin]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Alex Ryu <alex.ryu at kdlinc.com> wrote:
> One of ARIN's priciple was that ARIN is not responsible for
> routability of IP address allocated.

Alex,

One of ARIN's legal limitations of liability is that it doesn't
guarantee routability of any addresses it allocates. That's not at all
the same thing.

IIRC, Tony Li of IRTF RRG once observed: "Routing is addressing is
routing." If it wasn't Tony I apologize, but whoever authored that
statement captured the long and short of it. What's *possible* in the
routing system follows from how the addresses are allocated and how
the addresses are allocated follows from what's needed in the routing
system.

ARIN's liability for what 3rd parties do with the addresses notwithstanding.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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