[135871] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3's IRR Database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo)
Sun Jan 30 12:40:25 2011
In-Reply-To: <E65B3ED7E6FCBA48BC3E2FA899729216018E704D@rouwkoop.ac.za>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:39:36 -0200
From: Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo <carlosm3011@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Alston <aa@tenet.ac.za>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: carlos@lacnic.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The solution to this problem (theoretical at least) already exist in
the form of RPKI.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Andrew Alston <aa@tenet.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've just noticed that Level 3 is allowing people to register space in it=
s 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 loc=
k 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 f=
eel like once the filters propagate, which in my opinion completely nullifi=
es the point of IRR in the first place.
>
> Though I think this also raises the question about IRR databases in gener=
al. =A0Would 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 as=
signments, 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 ent=
ries 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
>
>
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Carlos M. Martinez-Cagnazzo
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