RADB entry

Tue Dec 11 15:17:59 UTC 2012

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Eric Krichbaum <eric at telic.us> wrote:
> Absolutely.  I'd rather see it done responsibly.  It's hard to get rid of
> bad data/incorrect data/stale data and it shouldn't be.  If done properly,
> it would be much friendlier.  There is incentive for people to put data in
> but not to remove the other.

and in the name of expediency providers proxy-register for their downstreams...
route:      209.85.252.79/32
descr:      GOOGLE/GOO/611
origin:     AS15412
notify:     notify at flagtelecom.com
mnt-by:     MAINT-FLAG-CUSTOMER
changed:    hostmaster at flagtelecom.com 20100524
source:     RADB

thanks flag, I needed that... could you remove it pls? (note I've
attempted a few times to get flag to remove this, so far no joy.

(one example of many...)
-chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: christopher.morrow at gmail.com [mailto:christopher.morrow at gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Christopher Morrow
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:51 AM
> To: Eric Krichbaum
> Cc: Chuck Church; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: RADB entry
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Eric Krichbaum <eric at telic.us> wrote:
>>  The origin being entered by a
>> provider as their own allows them to add the prefix (and have it
>> accepted by anyone who filters them by prefix generated) without being
>> forced to add a downstream (and downstream's downstreams) AS to their
> AS-SET.
>
> 'proxy registration'... so nice... now you can't control your prefix data in
> radb, how quaint!
> 'proxy registration' - never a good idea... not ever... adding cruft that's
> not connected to the data owner to the database? recipe for
> stale/old-n-busted data... hurray.
>
>