On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:25:59PM -0500, gerald@merit.edu darkened my spool with the following:
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)
i would venture to say that laziness would be one reason folks don't register. possibly the primary. havent you heard; diligence is passe. how many have md5 auth on all their [ie]bgp sessions? <my hand is not raised, unfortunately>