On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Vadim Antonov wrote:
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
Yakhov, Elise, Mark, and Bill - 1994 as part of the RA project, bringers of the RAdb.
This gets to the heart of the matter. It is now 8 years later and RADB is not catching on.
It doesn't have anything to do with query serialization method.
RADB is a kludge forcing ISPs to make their routing infrastructure to depend on an external and centralized resource, and introducing an extra step (which takes non-negligible amount of time) to their customer installation process.
The better way of dealing with the problem of bogus routes is strong authentication of the actual routing updates, whith key being allocated together with the address block. Solves unused address space reclaimation problem, too - when the key expires, it becomes unroutable.
<snip> Of course, who would maintain the key databases and do you mean every route would need a key with the central registrar or would it be carved up to eg authority on /8 level or lir level which could be /22s.. seems at some point you still have to go back to a central resource and if you dont have a single resource you make it complicated? Steve