[51674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IRR listing of IANA-reserved, a question..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrei Robachevsky)
Wed Sep 4 08:49:44 2002
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 14:49:06 +0200
From: Andrei Robachevsky <andrei@ripe.net>
To: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
Cc: "John M. Brown" <john@chagresventures.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Daniel,
Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> Speaking for myself too:
[...]
>
> I know that the RIRs have efforts underway to publish such authoritative lists.
> I do not know the exact status of this work. But I fully agree with your requirement
> for a *single* *authoritative* list.
>
Yes, we at the RIPE NCC are working on such list. However the task, as
you said, is not as easy as it seems to be. We have to be confident in
the data we publish and this requires some work especially regarding
early registrations.
There are also efforts by the RIRs to make allocation records more
accurate and appearing in the right RIR, the ERX project for instance
http://www.arin.net/registration/erx/index.html.
> Of course I would use it in the routers I operate. However these are not significant
> to many peoiple these days.
>
> Daniel
>
> PS: I do not care at all about the format as long as it is readily machine parseable.
>
> Daniel
Regards,
Andrei Robachevsky
DB Group Manager
RIPE NCC
