[59243] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IRR/RADB and BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Dills)
Fri Jun 20 12:21:38 2003
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:21:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <GPEOJKGHAMKFIOMAGMDIEEGGONAB.deepak@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Deepak Jain wrote:
>
> > I strongly approve of such requirement. I know that it is in the peering
> > agreements of several carriers, but they often don't check or enforce
> > this. Many register customer routes and ASes. If routes and policies
> > were properly registered, securing the Internet would be a lot closer
> > to being possible.
>
> Is it safe to assume (now) that all the routes one would care to listen to
> (under normal circumstances)
> are registered in an IRR now? I remember there used to be well-known issues
> with some networks, especially internationally.
I dunno, there are plenty of smaller ASes who have yet to be forced to
register their routes.
We haven't yet been forced, but I finally got motivated to submit them to
altdb last night. Altdb definitely rocks.
Andy
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