[18380] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NOC communications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex P. Rudnev)
Tue Jul 14 06:12:09 1998
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:50:34 +0400 (MSD)
From: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@Relcom.EU.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.980713140003.509L-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
PGP signature of NOC can help you?
> > The contact information which I only give out directly to other NOCs has
> > NEVER been abused.
>
> Here is the key to this problem. How can you publish contact information
> in such a way that it only goes to other NOCs. And conversely, how can you
> ensure that you have access to the contact information of all other NOCs.
> I suspect that there may be a way for the IP registries (ARIN, RIPE and
> APNIC) to facilitate this with some kind of replicated database in which
> change notifications only go out to entities listed in the database. That
> way every NOC could maintain their own complete copy of a global NOC
> contacts database and the only need for queries would be to process update
> notifications and do the occasional resync with the master copy.
