IRR/RADB and BGP

Fri Jun 20 15:49:00 UTC 2003

Negative.

-Ejay

-----Original Message-----
From: Deepak Jain [mailto:deepak at ai.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:43 PM
To: Kevin Oberman; Vandy Hamidi
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: IRR/RADB and BGP 

> I strongly approve of such requirement. I know that it is in the peering
> agreements of several carriers, but they often don't check or enforce
> this. Many register customer routes and ASes. If routes and policies
> were properly registered, securing the Internet would be a lot closer
> to being possible.

Is it safe to assume (now) that all the routes one would care to listen to
(under normal circumstances)
are registered in an IRR now? I remember there used to be well-known issues
with some networks, especially internationally.

Deepak Jain
AiNET