On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 12:56:32PM -0500, Mark Borchers wrote:
Are there any plans to correlate route registry objects against address registry databases?
Yes. RFC 2725 - Routing Policy System Security. This will provide an authorization mechanism for delegation of objects. This includes provisions for "unauhorized" (private) data in the IRR - its simply tagged differently.
I believe that one of the roots of this thread is the need to validate the legitimacy of not only routes, but registered route objects.
Oh believe me, we know. :-)
Although it is too much to expect that route objects will match up cleanly with address block assignments at the outset, performing such a correlation would at least identify the scope of the problem.
I've had some initial conversations with ARIN on getting SWIP information published in RPSL format (as inet-num objects) minus the contact information. Now if someone has an idea for how to represent allocation lengths for the IP registries in an inet-num object, I think we can make a lot of people happy. We will also be talking to RIPE and APNIC about this as work progresses.
Mark Borchers Splitrock Services
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