[88170] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: preventing future situations like panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Karlin)
Mon Jan 23 18:42:34 2006
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:42:01 -0700
From: Josh Karlin <karlinjf@cs.unm.edu>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <7D320B84-31E8-4E51-B233-C4BF76BC186C@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> To what extent does the route object validation in the RIPE database
> (for routes covering RIPE-allocated space), together with maintainer
> object authentication, provide a "perfect IRR", according to your
> research?
>
> (I realise the step from "useful, authenticated source of data" to
> "universally-deployed import filters" is non-trivial.)
My understanding is that RIPE, while quite good, still contains a
significant amount of old data that needs to be regularly flushed. It
certainly seems reasonable to use its information as a good first
approximation of the validity of a route, and I think that would go
quite well with our recommendation, reducing the number of routes
flagged as suspicious.
