Implied warranty of routability?

[Larry Honig]

<OFF TOPIC? MAYBE?> Pertaining to this: a TECHIE might come up with a
solution as follows: somewhere in the actual IP address (lets call it
IPv4.022??) the SOURCE OF AUTHORITY resides (probably at the MSB end),
so then the world is not tied to a single source of routing address
space, but rather a pointed-to-list of SOA's which can replicate
addresses til the cows come mooing home without stepping on each other
(oh - did I forget the part where two SOA's both want the same SOA ID?)
<IM NOT CLEAR WHERE ONTOPIC AND OFFTOPIC REALLY END HERE...>

Also, for my edification, are there any DOCUMENTED CASES of unroutable
addresses being issued? Or addresses being unintentionally replicated?
How does the newly assigned address block get validated as kosher right
now other than in the "dreaded real world test"?


Karl Auerbach wrote:
> 
> >
> > >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--