[56463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bdragon@gweep.net)
Sat Mar 8 23:29:42 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 23:29:10 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <038701c2e010$04e377f0$126df640@amplex.net> from "Mark Radabaugh" at Mar 01, 2003 11:31:30 AM
From: <bdragon@gweep.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> You forgot the other one - expense. AFAIK all of the registries have fees
> or require you to be a customer. If there is no operational value for me
> why would I want to spend the money? I realize most of you work for
> companies that consider a million dollars chump change but that is not the
> case everywhere. If you can give me a convincing reason to register my
> routes in a RADB I will - but at this point I have yet to see it.
There is at least one free best-effort IRR. Also, as you point out, there
are several IRRs which permit customers to register for free. RIPE permits
(even encourages, I believe) its members to register in its db. ARIN may do
the same, as I see they have a db.
