Hrm, sent several hours ago and still hasn't had nanog. Resending in-case it got snarfed by hungry routers on the intarweb. ----- Forwarded message from Marius Strom <marius@marius.org> ----- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:36:14 -0600 From: Marius Strom <marius@marius.org> To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Discussion Group: Web Based tool for tracking circuits Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu Ok, I've created a "carrier-neutral" mailing list on yahoogroups to house people who are interested in such a system. Interested developers and such should subscribe to cktid@yahoogroups.com. We can start discussions on what's out there, how to integrate things, possibly create a sourceforge project, etc. It seems everyone wants one, but no one's got one completed (other than Excel spreadsheets). On Mon, 08 Mar 2004, william(at)elan.net wrote:

Several commercial ip allocation systems exist (cost thousands, I came across couple of them but did not keep list). The closest opensource on this is freeipdb (http://www.freeipdb.org), but its not very feature-rich. The IRM project (which I've never heard about until I just demod it right now), comes much closer to what maybe needed and it does seem like it can be converted to serve ISP allocation needs somewhat easily and is quite extensible for shared enviroments, but in any case, such project needs to be done right, i.e.: 1. Creating mail list and first discussing and list of goals and features we want in this system. 2. Looking at existing project to see which can feets best or parts of which of which projects can possible be combined together 2. Creating sourceforge (or other) project and assiging features to be implemented to developers. Etc.

If others are interested lets get together to work on it. I'm willing to help in possible support for rwhois server or automated swips to arin and some other back-end support where I have some experience I'm guessing that at least half a dozen people need to get involved and be willing to spend some of their time (perhaps 10 hours/month) for this to come through and most need to be php web developers if IRM is to be used as origin.

If I receive favorable response privately about it and enough people are willing to spend their time on it, I'll let you know about what the project development webpage would be (i.e. sourceforge most likely) ----- End forwarded message -----

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