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Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Wall)
Sat Feb 21 01:24:07 2009
In-Reply-To: <499DE969.902@verizonbusiness.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:23:58 -0500
From: Paul Wall <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
To: Heather Schiller <heather.schiller@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Heather Schiller
<heather.schiller@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
> No. Use of a routing registry is not required.. ARIN's, RADB's or
> otherwise.
It's not required, however it's a good operational best-practice, and
it helps with automating prefix-list generation/management.
> Check w/ your provider, but in most cases you will find that they don't use
> a route registry.
Most is a very strong word. A number of large providers do,
Level3/Savvis/GX to name a few. Verizon might not, but they're
becoming increasingly less relevant in the transit marketplace with
every passing day... :)
Drive Slow,
Paul Wall
