[135846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Level 3's IRR Database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Alston)
Sun Jan 30 03:23:58 2011
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:23:39 +0200
From: "Andrew Alston" <aa@tenet.ac.za>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi All,
I've just noticed that Level 3 is allowing people to register space in =
its IRR database that A.) is not assigned to the people registering it =
and B.) is not assigned via/to Level 3.
So, I have two queries
A.) Are only customers of Level 3 allowed to use this database
B.) Can someone from Level 3 please clarify if there are any plans to =
lock this down slightly
At this point, it would seem that if you are a customer of level 3's, =
you can register any space you feel like in there, and announce anything =
you feel like once the filters propagate, which in my opinion completely =
nullifies the point of IRR in the first place.
Though I think this also raises the question about IRR databases in =
general. Would it not be far more sane to have each RIR run a single =
instance each which talk to each other, which can be verified against IP =
address assignments, and scrap the distributed IRR systems that allow =
for issues like this to occur?
(In the mean time I've emailed the relevant people to try and get the =
entries falsely registered in that database removed, and will wait and =
see if I get a response).
Andrew Alston
TENET - Chief Technology Officer
Phone: +27 21 763 7181
