Jan. 31, 2011
3:45 a.m.
On 1/30/11 7:25 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
Networks withdraw routes and make address space unreachable all the time
true, and not relevant.
ICANN hands out the ASNs and IP space, but has nothing to do with the maintenance of the route table ...
since the global routing table is the construct of peering bgp speakers, the same claim could be made, with the same lack of utility, for every subnet owning entity possessed of a boarder router.
...For all we know, the Egyptian government disconnected the networks with an axe, and the routes are just going away as a side effect.
demonstrably false, but rhetorically amusing.