Re: Routing registry was Re: Sprint BGP filters in 207.x.x.x?

[bmanning () ISI EDU]

> OK.  So WHY AREN"T people using the routing registry?  If they did would 
> they be able to get around individual peering and transit agreements?  Is 
> it a chicken and egg thing.  IE what percentage of global routes does the 
> registry have?  how does the registry as it stands now save people time, 
> trouble or money?

        for answers to some of these questions, I would point you
        at the following URL: 
        http://www.merit.edu/routing.arbiter/RA/index.html

        The IRR has little to do with peering & transit, other
        than to reflect agreements.          

        Other questions will have to be answered by people in
        the community.  Many people do register in the IRR.
        Those that don't, won't for a variety of reasons. For some,
        there is an unwillingness to trust a thirdparty operator
        coupled with no desire to run a portion of the registry in-house.  
        When these two conditions are found in a large-scale provider,
        the concept and implementation of the Internet RR are 
        frustrated to the extent that the non-participating provider
        becomes increasingly unreachable/understandable.  They 
        are relegated to peridoc public postings to mailing lists
        for definitions of their routing policies.

        I expect that the example set by other large-scale providers
        would be an incentive.  Running a section of the IRR inhouse
        shows a spirit of cooperation and a desire to share in the
        global internet. Refusal to do so appears, at least to me,
        to be an arrogant, egotistical view about any specific providers
        importance to a working global internet.

--bill