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

[John Curran]

At 11:36 1/31/97, Karl Auerbach wrote:

>OK, I hereby assign you the address 1.2.3.4.  Good luck getting 
>someone to give you routing.

Karl,
 
   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