[106855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: route policy (Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Fri Aug 15 01:36:30 2008
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:36:16 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> > Yes, RIPE rock. Please make it all not suck.
>
> Unfortunately, RIPE DB will allow anyone to add any route objects for
> prefixes that are not under the RIPE management :-(. For example,
> anyone could add route objects for most of DNS root server prefixes.
Little details get used to avoid fixing bigger problems, see the
please stop sucking bit.
If there was somewhere else the aliens had to be registered then they
could be dropped from RIPE
brandon