BGP to doom us all

Tue Mar 4 10:03:29 UTC 2003

## On 2003-03-04 09:26 -0000 Michael.Dillon at radianz.com typed:

> 
> > Uhhhh.... it's nice to be able to change routing information in a
> > timely fashion without needing intensive therapy afterward.  The
> > idea isn't inherently bad, but I'd not want the current ARIN
> > acting as a route registry.
> 
> How would you feel about ARIN being the root of a registry hierarchy that 
> works similar to the DNS?

 I hope you meant IANA as the root of the registry ?
ARIN is (just ;-) a RIR just like RIPE or APNIC  

>> In that case, ARIN would not necessarily hold 
> the route information, they would just be at the top of the search 
> hierarchy just like the root name servers are at the top of the DNS 
> hierarchy. ARIN would authoritatively identify the leaseholder of an 
> address block and give you a pointer to that leaseholder's LDAP server 
> where you could query for whatever info they have available. This could 
> include route registry info.
> 
> --Michael Dillon

-- 
	Rafi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 