[154988] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why use PeeringDB?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Lassoff)
Wed Jul 18 13:25:06 2012
In-Reply-To: <CC2C372F.5B2C7%zaid@zaidali.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:24:21 -0700
From: Jonathan Lassoff <jof@thejof.com>
To: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com> wrote:
> The goal is "Source of truth" for any peer to know information at the
> Exchange points as well as peering coordinator information. I think it is
> a great tool for the peering community and definitely useful. Cons: Will
> it be the next RADB? There needs to be a sustainable community to keep it
> running since it is a volunteer effort.
Good point. I suspect that enough large users (with money, developers,
hosting, etc.) are enjoying it that it has reached a critical mass of
a semi-core service that wont have a hard time getting some support
going forward.
--j
