At 9:56 -0500 9/20/12, Naslund, Steve wrote:
I suppose that ARIN would say that they do not guarantee routability because they do not have operational control of Internet routers.
ARIN does not provide transit - how could they guarantee or even just provide best-effort routability?
However, Wouldn't you say that there is a very real expectation that when you request address space through ARIN or RIPE that it would be routable?
Perhaps, but that is misguided. ARIN, et.al. don't get involved in peering or block lists or firewall configuration guides or hurricane forecasting or ... anything else that bars reachability. If I decide to unilaterally block traffic from your address range, ARIN, et.al., can't do anything about it.
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