On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Christopher Morrow wrote:
arin never (nor do any RIR) guarantee routability, nor do they even a
method to affect routability of a network.
Sure they do. They can and have put pressure on networks to stop
advertisements from being propagated. What they can actually do if their
bluff is called, I have no idea, but I've seen their influence work.
2) Have the current "owner" pay the market rate for the IP space
... that's somewhat hard since the current policies don't support
that, and there is no real legal stance for legacy-allocations... For
allocated post-legacy-times ARIN can start court proceedings, but ...
that's a lengthy process and expensive.
Having looked back at old copies of the domain-template.txt and
internet-number-template.txt, I really don't see why one group was
grandfathered in with an indefinite free ride and the other was not at
all.
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