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Most carriers require letter of authorization or proof of ownership of the addresses to allow you to announce an IP range. So if you are an individual or small business purchasing colocation, announcements outside those authorized will be ignored.
ARIN is a RIR which is accredited by IANA for allocation of ip blocks in the region.
I was meaning who maintains authority over IANA and thus ICANN?
The internet is like the wild west sometimes.
http://www.bgpmon.net/bgp-routing-incidents-in-2014-malicious-or-not/
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/isp-bitcoin-theft/
ICANN is a non profit organization which is maintained by their own board and works together with verisign on the DNS system.
There is no clear authority above ICANN from what i know.
So basically all upstream providers just accept ICANN/IANA as an authority thats privately owned for anything internet IP/DOMAIN. The government/laws are not involved in enforcing it?
@pcfreak30 Do have a good look at the BGPmon link that @KuJoe posted. Also, The Vast World of Fraudulent Routing article on Dyn Research might answer some questions for you. Like they say there, "routing on the global Internet is based entirely on trust".
@Ole_Juul, already read the article.
Some ISP do not even ask for an LOA or proof of ownership! They usually do, some of the large Asia ISPs will advertise whatever their customer requests. Mind boggling.
PCCW caused some major problems a few years back causing entire countries to loose their connectivity to the net.
In Europe people want a route object and the other route policy information in the RIPE database to be correct. No papers needed.
Route Object and LOA normally.