On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Stephen Griffin wrote:
In the referenced message, Tony Tauber said:
If there's a desire to trust information garnered from the Internet Routing Registry (eg. RADB, RIPE), it would seem that one would like a way to verify the server responding to queries.
At this time, I think verification and sanity-checking of the data that goes into the IRR is more important than that which comes out of it.
There is a plethora of stale registrations, entities who don't register (*cough*701*cough*), and at least one entity which is robo-proxy-registering routes "in the wild" (due to the folks who don't register.)
I understand your gripe but am not interested in boiling the ocean today. If there were a *subset* of information that one was prepared to trust somewhat, the modest enhancement of more verifiable queries would be nice and, I think, fairly cheap to add. Tony