Routing registry was Re: Sprint BGP filters in 207.x.x.x?
bmanning at ISI.EDU
bmanning at ISI.EDU
Wed Dec 13 22:05:38 UTC 1995
>
> OK. So WHY AREN"T people using the routing registry? If they did would
> they be able to get around individual peering and transit agreements? Is
> it a chicken and egg thing. IE what percentage of global routes does the
> registry have? how does the registry as it stands now save people time,
> trouble or money?
>
for answers to some of these questions, I would point you
at the following URL:
http://www.merit.edu/routing.arbiter/RA/index.html
The IRR has little to do with peering & transit, other
than to reflect agreements.
Other questions will have to be answered by people in
the community. Many people do register in the IRR.
Those that don't, won't for a variety of reasons. For some,
there is an unwillingness to trust a thirdparty operator
coupled with no desire to run a portion of the registry in-house.
When these two conditions are found in a large-scale provider,
the concept and implementation of the Internet RR are
frustrated to the extent that the non-participating provider
becomes increasingly unreachable/understandable. They
are relegated to peridoc public postings to mailing lists
for definitions of their routing policies.
I expect that the example set by other large-scale providers
would be an incentive. Running a section of the IRR inhouse
shows a spirit of cooperation and a desire to share in the
global internet. Refusal to do so appears, at least to me,
to be an arrogant, egotistical view about any specific providers
importance to a working global internet.
--bill
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