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Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1?
From: cengiz () ISI EDU (Cengiz Alaettinoglu)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:08:07 -0700
It seems to me that everyone has some sort of an internal policy database. Perhaps some providers actually get a call from their customers and login to their routers and update the config files to reflect that new policy. But my impression is most providers have a database (in ASCII file format, ripe-181, NACRs, mainframes, etc) and generate config files from this. The way I look at a routing registry is that a routing registry is a way of accessing each other's internal database or bringing them together in a common place accessible by everyone. For it to be useful it must have a common format, currently Ripe-181. Ripe-181 lacks certain features which are often used by US providers to describe their policies. Hence we are developing a new language, called RPSL (Routing Policy Specification Language). Please contribute to its development so that this common format is adequate for all of us. Your internal format may still be different (ANS uses a superset of Ripe-181) as long as it is converted to the common format before making it public. Now that we have common place, a repository, is this information useful? As long as there are lots of tools to access this information in useful ways, I think it is. Currently, one can configure its routers from this registry (RtConfig tool), or do diagnosis (prtraceroute) or do policy analysis (prpath, prcheck). More tools are coming. Why trust the registry, as opposed to your internal database? This is a very good point. Hence, we are also in the process of defining a hierarchical registry organization for IRR (Internet Routing Registry). Some providers (like MCI) may maintain a part of this global registry, and some may prefer to have their internal database and convert it to the common format and make it available somewhere else (say RADB or Ripe). If you wish to join rps wg and contribute or at least provide feedback, please send mail to rps-request () isi edu. Cengiz -- Cengiz Alaettinoglu Information Sciences Institute (310) 822-1511 University of Southern California http://www.isi.edu/div7/people/cengiz.home
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- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1?, (continued)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Dale S. Johnson (Apr 19)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Dale S. Johnson (Apr 19)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Sean Donelan (Apr 20)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Vadim Antonov (Apr 20)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Susan Hares (Apr 20)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? net99 (Apr 28)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Susan Hares (Apr 29)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Susan Hares (Apr 20)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Vadim Antonov (Apr 20)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Jessica Yu (Apr 20)
- Has PSI been assigned network 1? Daniel Karrenberg (Apr 21)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Cengiz Alaettinoglu (Apr 20)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Vadim Antonov (Apr 20)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Susan Hares (Apr 20)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Curtis Villamizar (Apr 20)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Dale S. Johnson (Apr 20)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Guy Almes (Apr 21)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Vadim Antonov (Apr 21)
- Has PSI been assigned network 1? Daniel Karrenberg (Apr 24)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Tim Salo (Apr 21)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Vadim Antonov (Apr 21)
- Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Karl Denninger, MCSNet (Apr 21)