[135977] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3's IRR Database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Jan 31 09:43:15 2011
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:42:13 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <D4D90B71-1078-4796-8FFE-E61DFACED3AC@hopcount.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 31/01/2011 14:16, Joe Abley wrote:
> On 2011-01-30, at 12:15, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> Depends on which IRR you use. The IRRDBs run by RIPE, APNIC and
>> AfriNIC implement hierarchical object ownership, which means that if
>> you're registering their address space, you can only do so if that
>> address space legitimately belongs to you.
> This means that anybody can assert pretty much anything they like, so
> long as the resources are not NCC-assigned.
yes, indeed. I did mention "which means that if you're registering their
address space...", although maybe that wasn't clear enough. Will use
capital letters next time :-)
Nick
