[156594] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Thu Sep 20 12:49:08 2012
In-Reply-To: <2A76E400AC84B845AAC35AA19F8E7A5D0C6FF97D@MUNEXBE1.medline.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:48:00 -0400
To: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund@medline.com>
From: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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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