Hello, How would LDAP help? LDAP is just a distributed, hierarchical, object-oriented database. If ISPs only wanted to filter the right /8s, they could do that using http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space Unless the worldwide LDAP service would be checked by every router and the router learns what /8s to filter from the service. But then there would be security problems here. Actually, something that would send email to all the ISPs would be more secure (people would double-check before filtering). I don't see anything about the LDAP protocol that would help filtering /8s. Harsha. On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Brent Imhoff wrote:
We've already tried the RADB/RPSL/IRRD/whois/rwhois route for years and it has failed. Only a few people have bothered to learn most of these technologies and many network operators don't use any of it in an automated fashion. Just recently there was a lot of discussion about the
I bothered to learn it and use it in a very automated fashion, thank you very much. It really wasn't that hard and it works quite well. I'm curious to hear why it has taken you years to come up with only failure.
-brent