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.
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