[73754] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIPE "Golden Networks" Document ID - 229/210/178
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Sep 2 12:45:55 2004
In-Reply-To: <027569C4-FCFA-11D8-AD73-000D9329F0D6@karoshi.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:42:19 -0400
To: Bill Manning <bmanning@karoshi.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Bill,
I agree with your general line of reasoning, but would likely characterize
RIPE as an RIR *and* operator forum... formulating and reviewing
recommendations on operational matters make some sense as a result.
As to the particular set of prefixes, there's a great question as to what
criteria make a particular network "important"... one could easily come
up with a list of extremely popular commercial sites (CNN, Amazon, etc.)
which might be more noticeable if route damped for an hour.
/John
At 4:06 AM +1200 9/3/04, Bill Manning wrote:
>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.
