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

[Michael Dillon]

On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> 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 not. Why should they care? ARIN is only a registry.

> 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. 

Rogue activity may occur, but very little chaos will result just as little
chaos has resulted from the Alternic's actions. Most providers will have
the foresight to see that if even one provider does not join in the rogue
activity, then that provider will have a competitive market advantage.
Therefore most providers will not join in. It is not unusual for
unregistered IP address blocks to show up on the global Internet. But when
this occurs, it is quickly tracked down and filtered out. This is
especially so when the address is already in use by someone else who *HAS*
registered it. All in a day's work.

Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
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