[134686] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AltDB? (IRR support & direction at ARIN)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Jan 9 18:48:37 2011
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:48:30 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinuxR0dWncg+i5aD_jdAgxk_Hciq6GsR-PwTA7G@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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>>> =A0 Do you: 1) want IRR services, and if so, with what features?
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 2) believe IRR services should be provided by ARIN?
>>
>> the irr is slightly useful today. =A0so, iff it is cheap and easy, arin
>> providing an open and free instance is a public good. =A0again, iff it is
>> easy and cheap. =A0and please do not waste time trying to 'fix' the irr,
>> sad to say it's trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
>=20
> I'm not suggesting that ARIN undertake a large and complex effort to
> solve a bunch of issues with IRR.
jeff, i do not disagree that running an irr instance with only mail-from
is soooo 1980s. and, as mans points out, there is free software out
there to do it (i recommend irrd). but i do not see good cause for arin
to spend anything non-trivial to fix a problem in an irr instance which
is not used very much. i.e. better to drop it than to spend non-trivial
money to modernize it.
but more to the point, by 'fix' it, i did not mean modernizing the auth
method set. i meant the content, syntax and semantics.
randy
