[73753] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIPE "Golden Networks" Document ID - 229/210/178
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frederico A C Neves)
Thu Sep 2 12:42:24 2004
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:41:42 -0300
From: Frederico A C Neves <fneves@registro.br>
To: Bill Manning <bmanning@karoshi.com>
Cc: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Mail-Followup-To: Frederico A C Neves <fneves@registro.br>,
Bill Manning <bmanning@karoshi.com>,
Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:06:12AM +1200, Bill Manning wrote:
>
> well....
>
> RIPE is the RIR for Europe. RIPE-229 is, from my viewpoint, arbitrary
> and capricious.
> the root servers are -ONE- set of interesting servers. what about the
> web sites that point
> to these "important" documents? or the time servers, or my NOC &
> monitoring machines?
>
> The idea of an Internet Registry stepping into giving routing advice is
> a leap of faith.
> An RIR can tell you what was delegated - but presuming to give advice
> on what is important
> for everyone that uses IP protocols is over the top.
No. RIPE != RIPE NCC (RIR). This document is a product of the RIPE
Routing-WG [1]. Read the reference.
Fred
[1] http://www.ripe.net/ripe/about/index.html
