US CODE: Title 15, Chapter 1, Section 2.

[Paul Ferguson]

Yes, and the registries have been quite clear that address
space allocated by them is in no way to be considered
'routable'. No magic here (tm).

- pal

At 01:26 PM 1/31/97 -0500, John Curran wrote:

>At 11:36 1/31/97, Karl Auerbach wrote:
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>>OK, I hereby assign you the address 1.2.3.4.  Good luck getting 
>>someone to give you routing.
>
>Karl,
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>   One side point: there is nothing to my knowledge that insures
>   that ARIN (or any other organization) is allocated "routable"
>   address space.  Certainly, the policies of the various Internet
>   providers need to be considered when performing allocations,
>   but there no authority which can dictate "thou shall route this"
>   to the Internet provider community.
>
>/John
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