[56350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP to doom us all
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafi Sadowsky)
Tue Mar 4 05:04:42 2003
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:03:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF6005DF5C.BC6FD278-ON80256CDF.0033740D-80256CDF.0033D27C@radianz.com>
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## On 2003-03-04 09:26 -0000 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com typed:
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> > Uhhhh.... it's nice to be able to change routing information in a
> > timely fashion without needing intensive therapy afterward. The
> > idea isn't inherently bad, but I'd not want the current ARIN
> > acting as a route registry.
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> How would you feel about ARIN being the root of a registry hierarchy that
> works similar to the DNS?
I hope you meant IANA as the root of the registry ?
ARIN is (just ;-) a RIR just like RIPE or APNIC
>> In that case, ARIN would not necessarily hold
> the route information, they would just be at the top of the search
> hierarchy just like the root name servers are at the top of the DNS
> hierarchy. ARIN would authoritatively identify the leaseholder of an
> address block and give you a pointer to that leaseholder's LDAP server
> where you could query for whatever info they have available. This could
> include route registry info.
>
> --Michael Dillon
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