On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 04:35:15PM +0930, Mark Prior wrote: [snip]
It's not all that simple to do, although certainly some of the trash could be deleted, since it's not always the organisation "owning" the address space that announces it. Some process that compares the IR registry view to the current routing table view might be "better" but who would take on that task and under what mandate as its one thing to find the problems but it's an entirely different problem to actually fix it?
Monitoring BGP table-vs-IRR is no big deal; IPMA has been giving a view into that for a long time. Giving anyone a good reason to fix their errors is another issue entirely. Most of the players who care about routing registries do so because they, their peers or upstreams use them. The incentive for those who don't care/use them to start caring/using them is what is lacking. Both the push to self-maintained registries [eliminating the 'not maintained here' paranoia] and the address-registry tie-in are good moves to make RRs more of a standard-and-accepted thing with which even curmudgeonly-types would have trouble arguing. Cheers, Joe -- Joe Provo Voice 508.486.7471 Director, Internet Planning & Design Fax 508.229.2375 Network Deployment & Management, RCN <joe.provo@rcn.com>