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

[David Schwartz]

	The representation is that such addresses will be globally 
unique, that is, not conflict with any other addresses released by ARIN 
or any of the other regional registries authorized by IANA to assign IPv4 
address space.

	The assurance of routability comes from a simple principle: When
/24's were assigned and considered routable, thousands of them were
issued. No one is going to pick your /24 out of the pile to filter. If you
want to sell Internet access, you can't be implementing a policy that
makes a significant fraction of the Internet unreachable to your
customers, regardless of the beneficial consequences for your routers. 

	So you can be reasonable assured that a block allocated by ARIN,
Internic, APNIC, or RIPE that is routable today will remain routable for 
awhile.

	If you want to attack what you think is a monopoly, it's really
IANA you should be attacking. ARIN is simply the transfer of some of
Internic's present duties to a new body. So can we get this off this 
list, please?

	DS

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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, John Curran wrote:

> 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