This pig is less aerodynamic, and fewer people are pushing. In-addr DNS and whois are simple and well-understood protocols, with many programmer-years of software development behind them. The problem isn't the marginal cost of a single transaction, that might only be one or two orders of magnitude higher. The problem is the overhead cost of trying to force a poorly-architected system into a semblance of production-quality. If you want something that anyone can _actually rely upon_, that's a precursor to doing the incremental transactions. -Bill
On Dec 4, 2014, at 11:49, "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:28:42 -0800, Bill Woodcock said:
On Dec 4, 2014, at 11:21 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: Orders of magnitude? Seriously? I can buy it costs 2x or 3x. But an additional 2 or 3 zeros on the price?
Yep, thats why all this is at issue. If it were cheap, and worked, like in-addr or whois, there wouldn't be an issue, would there?
So why does an RPKI request cost *500 times* as much as (say) a request to assign an address block? Why is it *that* much more expensive to handle?