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

Mon Mar 3 15:04:10 UTC 2003

Very subtle, David.  As it happens, somebody asked only last week if
they could take up the project again.  For those who think mapping
filters to route objects is nigh trivial, there is a significant
difference between network assignees and routes.  Tracking assignments,
ASNs, customer routing policy, and which edge router each connects to
requires two scoops of Perl.

I should also point out that three out of four RIRs run a route registry.  
http://www.arin.net/tools/rr.html

Lee

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, David Barak wrote:

> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:54:26 -0800 (PST)
> From: David Barak <thegameiam at yahoo.com>
> To: Joe Abley <jabley at isc.org>, nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all] 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Joe Abley <jabley at isc.org> wrote:
> > Generating route filters from the IRR via a small
> > lump of script has 
> > the potential to be cheaper, quicker, more efficient
> > and less 
> > customer-enraging than the common alternative
> > approach of opening six 
> > different tickets with the NOC and sacrificing small
> > animals for three 
> > weeks until the updates are made.
> 
> When I was at $LARGE_PROVIDER, I was working on a
> project to port all of the customer IP information
> over to route-objects for precicely this purpose: the
> goal was that customers would be able to update their
> filters automatically (and get rWHOIS for free -
> simplifying additional ARIN allocation requests).  
> 
> Sadly for that project, after I left, the little Ultra
> 5 was abandoned, and AFAIK is still sitting in my old
> lab, unused - and after the most recent (quarterly)
> staff-bloodletting, there certainly won't be resources
> to devote to a project like that.  Sigh.
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> David Barak
> -fully RFC 1925 compliant-
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