Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Mon Mar 3 15:35:44 UTC 2003
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 lhoward at UU.NET wrote:
> 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.
Its not trivial, but there are several proof's of existance out
there. I think Worldcom even owned the code for at least two working
implementations at one time or another :-)
Essentially a route registry is a way to tell everyone "only listen to
this route/prefix from me." But if every ISP runs their own route
registry, you end up with the same problem with an additional level of
indirection. C&W's route registry says their route, Level 3's route
registry says their route, Verio's route registry says their route. Etc
with Merit, ARIN, RIPE.
However, it is a step forward to get the informaton in a common format
which can be shared/munged/checked/etc. The route vectors in BGP are
very information limited. RPSL/rWHOIS has the opportunity to provide
more context.
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