Since Sprint and UUnet don't seem to be willing to provide information in the IRR to allow us to generate access-lists/policies, and not peering with these folks would be a Bad Idea(tm), so we can't quite filter everyone. (If I could figure out a way to get them to register, I'd have fun trying, though.)
so, the question is how to make registering irresistable? peering contract requirement? peer pressure? :)
I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has problems/suggestions/ criticisms/etc... with the current routing registry. In particular, it would be nice to hear from UUnet, Sprint and those people who choose not to register in the IRR. A few years ago the chief complaints were poor data integrity (ie, bogus/old /stale data), authentication/security and under-participation (ie, very few ISP's used the registry). Yes, these are very serious problems. The data integrity problem I am guessing would still be the main drawback people would cite. We/Merit have worked hard over the last several years to address the problems associated with the IRR and continue to do so. We are finally in a position to do something about the data integrity problem and expect to implement RFC2725 (ie, RPS auth) by mid-2001 which should have a significant impact. But things change over time and I would like to hear what people think. Criticisms, suggestions, ...? --jerry winters (Merit)