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

[Randy Bush]

karl at cavebear.com:
> If ARIN does not promise coordination with routing, then I would submit
> that ARIN can not complain should some collection of ISPs decide to start
> selling net numbers, uncordinated with ARIN, for which they will advertise
> and exchange routing information.
> 
> Of course chaos will result.  But just like the Alternic proposals in the
> domain name context, this kind of rogue activity is a foreseeable response
> to the ARIN proposal, especially as ARIN choses not to guarantee that the
> numbers it issues will be usable.

And it will have the same global effect as the WannaNIC stuff, more vaccuous
traffic on mailing lists and no actual change in the internet.

If ARIN promised routability, people like you would be threatening all hell
right now because we all know that it can not be delivered.  Routability on
the internet is based solely on ISP cooperation.

randy