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Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> writes:

What's needed is a list of just where routes should be accepted from - which equates pretty much with address owneship, though says nothing about the permanence of that ownership.

A routing registry strongly coupled with an assignment registry: The RIPE database.

Daniel

Unfortnately, those of us who aren't actual registries can't use the RIPE setup in quite the same fashion. Personally, I'd prefer to just run a RIPE-like RR, rather than running an RR and an RWhois server, or running an RR and sending in SWIPs all the time.... Unfortunately, the Internic doesn't quite seem to see it from my perspective. _k