BGP to doom us all

Tue Mar 4 12:04:10 UTC 2003

> > 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? 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

	I don't know that the other RIRs would be willing to promote ARIN
	to the position once held by the IANA as the arbitor of all IP
	address space.  That said, why replicate the DNS?

--bill