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

Sun Mar 9 04:29:10 UTC 2003

> 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.

There is at least one free best-effort IRR. Also, as you point out, there
are several IRRs which permit customers to register for free. RIPE permits
(even encourages, I believe) its members to register in its db. ARIN may do
the same, as I see they have a db.