Re: BGP to doom us all

[Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog () meron openu ac il>]

## On 2003-03-04 09:26 -0000 Michael.Dillon () radianz com typed:

> > Uhhhh.... it's nice to be able to change routing information in a
> > timely fashion without needing intensive therapy afterward.  The
> > idea isn't inherently bad, but I'd not want the current ARIN
> > acting as a route registry.
>
> How would you feel about ARIN being the root of a registry hierarchy that 
> works similar to the DNS?

 I hope you meant IANA as the root of the registry ?
ARIN is (just ;-) a RIR just like RIPE or APNIC  

> > In that case, ARIN would not necessarily hold 
> the route information, they would just be at the top of the search 
> hierarchy just like the root name servers are at the top of the DNS 
> hierarchy. ARIN would authoritatively identify the leaseholder of an 
> address block and give you a pointer to that leaseholder's LDAP server 
> where you could query for whatever info they have available. This could 
> include route registry info.
>
> --Michael Dillon


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