[156586] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Sep 20 10:40:50 2012
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:39:35 +0000
In-Reply-To: <505B23C0.4010102@unfix.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 20, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
wrote:
> On 2012-09-20 16:01 , John Curran wrote:
>>=20
>> It's very clear in the ARIN region as well. From the ARIN Number
>> Resource Policy Manual (NRPM),=20
>> <https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#four11> -
>>=20
>> "4.1. General Principles 4.1.1. Routability Provider independent
>> (portable) addresses issued directly from ARIN or other Regional
>> Registries are not guaranteed to be globally routable."
>=20
> While close, that is not the same.
>=20
> The RIPE variant solely guarantees uniqueness of the addresses.
>=20
> The ARIN variant states "we don't guarantee that you can route it
> everywhere", which is on top of the uniqueness portion.
Agreed - I called it out because ARIN, like RIPE, does not assert=20
that the address blocks issued are "publicly routable address space"=20
(i.e. which was Tim Franklin's original statement, but he did not=20
have on hand the comparable ARIN reference for that point.)
FYI,
/John
