Very subtle, David. As it happens, somebody asked only last week if they could take up the project again. For those who think mapping filters to route objects is nigh trivial, there is a significant difference between network assignees and routes. Tracking assignments, ASNs, customer routing policy, and which edge router each connects to requires two scoops of Perl. I should also point out that three out of four RIRs run a route registry. http://www.arin.net/tools/rr.html Lee On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, David Barak wrote:
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:54:26 -0800 (PST) From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com> To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]
--- Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org> wrote:
Generating route filters from the IRR via a small lump of script has the potential to be cheaper, quicker, more efficient and less customer-enraging than the common alternative approach of opening six different tickets with the NOC and sacrificing small animals for three weeks until the updates are made.
When I was at $LARGE_PROVIDER, I was working on a project to port all of the customer IP information over to route-objects for precicely this purpose: the goal was that customers would be able to update their filters automatically (and get rWHOIS for free - simplifying additional ARIN allocation requests).
Sadly for that project, after I left, the little Ultra 5 was abandoned, and AFAIK is still sitting in my old lab, unused - and after the most recent (quarterly) staff-bloodletting, there certainly won't be resources to devote to a project like that. Sigh.
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