* Richard A Steenbergen said:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:10:57AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
In a message written on Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:55:30AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
Yes, it is that hard. Sadly, almost everyone I see push the IRR works for a small ISP. And at least half of those work for a small ISP in Europe.
C&W, Level3, Global Crossing and NTT/Verio are small isps?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but they all use the IRR to filter customers. That's a fine application of the IRR, and one I encourage. I don't think any of them use the IRR to filter peers. Indeed, I can provde they don't filter certian big peers due to the fact they don't register thier routes at all. :)
Global Crossing doesn't use the IRR to filter their BGP speaking customers, every prefix-list update gets touched by a human. While their response time is good, and they're generally friendly people, they do have a tendancy to prove that they are human by forgetting or typoing a random route with nearly every other update. When you start getting into the hundreds of routes, personally I will go through the trouble to maintain IRR entries any day vs letting humans break stuff.
As is usual with most things, it's not black and white. It's a sticky position that some major providers find themselves in. A lot of customers do not maintain their IRR objects or even have them at all. The traction would have to come from the provider themselves in a lot of cases, but then customers are apt to complain when a major provider registers 'their' routes on an IRR ... kinda like a dog peeing on a hydrant, some customers tend to think registration means a kind of ownership claim. -Steve