Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:24:01 +0900 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
I think ACLs here means prefix-lists ... or I hope that's what Randy meant?
sorry. yes, irr based prefix lists. and, sad to say, data which have sucked for 15+ years. i was the poster child for the irr, and it just never took off.
[ irr data are pretty bad except for some islands where there is culture of maintining them. and, as it is a global internet, islands don't help much. europe and japan are two islands with better than the average irr data quality. and they have rpki rolling to varied degrees. ]
The day of reasonable accuracy of the IRR ended when UUnet bought ANI. Since ANI actually used the IRR to generate there router configs and ANI was pretty big, people were really forced to register. Curtis had a lot of excellent software that did all sorts of impressive stuff with the IRR, but I guess that all went into the bit bucket when UUnet took over. Very, very sad! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751