Re: RIPE "Golden Networks" Document ID - 229/210/178

[John Curran <jcurran () istaff org>]

Bill,
 
  I agree with your general line of reasoning, but would likely characterize
  RIPE as an RIR *and* operator forum...   formulating and reviewing
  recommendations on operational matters make some sense as a result.

  As to the particular set of prefixes, there's a great question as to what
  criteria make a particular network "important"...   one could easily come
  up with a list of extremely popular commercial sites (CNN, Amazon, etc.)
  which might be more noticeable if route damped for an hour.

/John
 
At 4:06 AM +1200 9/3/04, Bill Manning wrote:
> RIPE is the RIR for Europe.  RIPE-229 is, from my viewpoint, arbitrary and capricious.
> the root servers are -ONE- set of interesting servers.   what about the web sites that point
> to these "important" documents?  or the time servers, or my NOC & monitoring machines?
>
> The idea of an Internet Registry stepping into giving routing advice is a leap of faith.
> An RIR can tell you what was delegated - but presuming to give advice on what is important
> for everyone that uses IP protocols is over the top.