Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

You forgot the other one - expense. AFAIK all of the registries have fees or require you to be a customer. If there is no operational value for me why would I want to spend the money? I realize most of you work for companies that consider a million dollars chump change but that is not the case everywhere. If you can give me a convincing reason to register my routes in a RADB I will - but at this point I have yet to see it.

There is at least one free best-effort IRR. Also, as you point out, there are several IRRs which permit customers to register for free. RIPE permits (even encourages, I believe) its members to register in its db. ARIN may do the same, as I see they have a db.