[54059] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Dec 10 07:35:23 2002
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:34:58 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> This gets to the heart of the matter. It is now 8 years later and RADB is
> not catching on. But during the same time period some other UMich people
> worked on a more general purpose directory service called LDAP and that
> one is catching on. LDAP technology can be made to do the job that we need
> done and instead of having to create tools from scratch we can leverage a
> lot of commercial tools to deal with the core functions.
you are confusing an application service, radb, with an underlying
store protocol, ldap. e.g., show me a routing db in ldap that has
10% the use of radb. by your reckoning, sql is the technology, as
ripe, apnic, and many others use it as the *store* for their routing
databases.
randy
