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I wouldn't be surprised to see this picked up in the Cook Report and some of the trade press because of your postings. The more people become aware of how the system is broken, the sooner we can fix it.

People actually read that?

Yes. The people who don't read NANOG do read the Cook Report and the trade press. If you want to reach everyone in charge of operating a network then you need to use more media than just NANOG.

A simple solution: 1) IANA creates an IANA-RESERVED IRR object 2) Entities switch to using this for their filters, and the updates happen automagically

This is essentially what I am suggesting except using LDAP rather than RADB/IRR technology. I don't believe that RADB will ever be used by the majority of North American network operators but I do believe that LDAP has a chance of 100% penetration in the same way that 100% of network operators use UNIX servers and scripting languages in their network operations. --Michael Dillon