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]
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 [email protected] wrote: > Very subtle, David. As it happens, somebody asked only last week if > they could take up the project again. For those who think mapping > filters to route objects is nigh trivial, there is a significant > difference between network assignees and routes. Tracking assignments, > ASNs, customer routing policy, and which edge router each connects to > requires two scoops of Perl. Its not trivial, but there are several proof's of existance out there. I think Worldcom even owned the code for at least two working implementations at one time or another :-) Essentially a route registry is a way to tell everyone "only listen to this route/prefix from me." But if every ISP runs their own route registry, you end up with the same problem with an additional level of indirection. C&W's route registry says their route, Level 3's route registry says their route, Verio's route registry says their route. Etc with Merit, ARIN, RIPE. However, it is a step forward to get the informaton in a common format which can be shared/munged/checked/etc. The route vectors in BGP are very information limited. RPSL/rWHOIS has the opportunity to provide more context.
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