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Re: RIPE "Golden Networks" Document ID - 229/210/178

  • From: John Curran
  • Date: Thu Sep 02 12:45:20 2004

Bill,
 
  I agree with your general line of reasoning, but would likely characterize
  RIPE as an RIR *and* operator forum...   formulating and reviewing
  recommendations on operational matters make some sense as a result.

  As to the particular set of prefixes, there's a great question as to what
  criteria make a particular network "important"...   one could easily come
  up with a list of extremely popular commercial sites (CNN, Amazon, etc.)
  which might be more noticeable if route damped for an hour.

/John
 
At 4:06 AM +1200 9/3/04, Bill Manning wrote:
>RIPE is the RIR for Europe.  RIPE-229 is, from my viewpoint, arbitrary and capricious.
>the root servers are -ONE- set of interesting servers.   what about the web sites that point
>to these "important" documents?  or the time servers, or my NOC & monitoring machines?
>
>The idea of an Internet Registry stepping into giving routing advice is a leap of faith.
>An RIR can tell you what was delegated - but presuming to give advice on what is important
>for everyone that uses IP protocols is over the top.