Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

Sat Mar 1 16:31:30 UTC 2003

> So, let's recap why no one uses them (as many have said already in the
related
> thread):  Laziness.  The same laziness that results in the slew of other
things
> many folks have pointed out not being addressed.
>
> -danny
>

You forgot the other one - expense.  AFAIK all of the registries have fees
or require you to be a customer.  If there is no operational value for me
why would I want to spend the money?  I realize most of you work for
companies that consider a million dollars chump change but that is not the
case everywhere.  If you can give me a convincing reason to register my
routes in a RADB I will - but at this point I have yet to see it.

What does a RADB tell you about a non-transit network that you can't see
from BGP and WHOIS?  There is no more security in RADB than there is in our
current method of notifying our peers of the netblocks we are announcing.

Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
(419) 720-3635