soBGP deployment

Tue May 24 10:11:02 UTC 2005

> >Why create reliance on more databases? The RIRs are iffy. We rely on 
DNS
> >right now. Why not keep relying on it? This solution doesn't solve all 
of
> >our problems, but it does help, its easy, and people will implement it.
> 
> Who populates the DNS (well, the .arpa domain)?  The RIRs do.

So, have we established that the RIRs are trustworthy
organizations that can act as the root of a distributed
database hierarchy? Does anyone really disagree with this?

Note that there are mechanisms outside of the IETF to
set up and operate a distributed database for validation
of route announcements. As Bill Manning pointed out,
you can piggyback something on DNS, or you could ask
the RIRs to make the route registries work more like 
DNS or you could ask the RIRs to do something else.
Since the RIRs are open and pulic organizations responsive
to the network operators who are the members, it is
not necessary to go to the IETF and argue with vendors
to get something implemented.

Not all problems should be solved inside a box with
Cisco or Juniper on written on it.

--Michael Dillon