Step 1 : Enforce IRR for customers *now*.
Step 2 : Enforce trusted replacement for IRR when available
Step 3 : Profit
Not progressing to step 1 today because you think IRR isn't the best solution is like not deploying IPv6 because you sat on your arse not deploying it all these years and justify yourself by denouncing the protocol on every mailing list and IRC channel at every available opportunity.
[ sorry for preaching. i know you are a fellow choir member ] for me it separates in to two things o what i do with my routers today. as you know, i have been pushing the irr and programmatic configuration since the mid '90s. that is your step 1. we have known how to do this for a decade. we don't need a bunch of talk. we need to shut up and hack. o what i do with my time. i don't have enough time to spend on both hacks and rigor, so i concentrate on the design and implementation of long-term formal and rigorous solutions, to which you allude in step 2. randy