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

[Michael Dillon]

On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> 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. 

It's a free market. If an ISP wants to refuse to route your IP addresses
for any reason whatsoever, they will do so. ARIN has nothing to do with
this other than to warn assignees that there is no guarantee of
routability. Routability or lack thereof is a commercial market decision.

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