Implied warranty of routability? Was: Re: US CODE: Title 15, ...

[Karl Auerbach]

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

That's a really good point.  I had been assuming (yes, I know that that is
a bad idea ;-) that an address allocation from "the" source would come
with an implied warranty that it would be routable.

Although it may not be directly germaine to the establishment of ARIN,
there could be some trouble from the assignees if some of the assignments
turn out to be non-routable. 

			--karl--