North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]
> You forgot the other one - expense. AFAIK all of the registries have fees > or require you to be a customer. If there is no operational value First problem, you see no "operational value". > for me why would I want to spend the money? Money changing hands no longer makes the IRR a dis-interested third party or research project, they now have a vested interested in object integrity and availability, and perhaps can afford resources to support these and other enhancements. > I realize most of you work for companies that consider a million dollars > chump change but that is not the case everywhere. If you can give me a > convincing reason to register my routes in a RADB I will - but at this > point I have yet to see it. When one of your peers starts filtering inter-provider based on IRR and your prefixes aren't permitted, or one of your peers advertises you more- specifics for your customers prefixes, or better yet, your routers are compromised and used to disrupt service to some now very unhappy multi- million dollar online enterprise that will seek reimbursement -- maybe that'll help convince you... > What does a RADB tell you about a non-transit network that you can't see > from BGP and WHOIS? There is no more security in RADB than there is in our > current method of notifying our peers of the netblocks we are announcing. You should read up on it, there's a bit more capability there than just a prefix and POC email address. -danny
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