Merging RIPE DB CLNS object (and IPng) into ripe-81++ ?

[Marcel Wiget <]

Hi all,

Henk Steenman and Susan Hares are working on a proposal for 
'CLNS routing-domain object for the RIPE database'. One of the aim of
this proposal is to be as close to the ripe-81++ objects as possible.

Now, instead of defining a new set of objects I have the following
proposal:

Network protocol address prefixes and hosts should be prefixed by
a two character protocol identifier. 

For the current IP networks:	IP192.87.45.0/24
For CLNS networks:		NS39.756f.1111/40

Autonomous numbers (AS):	AS1104	(already defined in rip-81++)
Routing Domain Identifier:	RD39.528f.1103

To prefix numbers would also simplify any transitions to IPng and allow
the usage of the RIPE database also for other network protocols. Due to
CIDR IP & NSAP network numbers are both classless and are prefixed by
a number of bits. 

Maybe someone has a better idea about prefixes to use. I just made them 
equal to the already defined AS number prefix ('AS').

The following attributes from ripe-81++ would get a more general 
'touch':

attribute	object		
-------------------------------
route		route	
origin		route
component	route	
inetnum		inetnum		

New objects needed for CLNS:

rdi	  Routing Domain Identifier (comparable to aut-num object)
	  (maybe even these objects could be merged, especially because
	  AS numbers can be mapped into RDI's in IDRP)

rd-macro  Equal to 'as-macro' object, for IDRP RDI's.

Any comments ?

Kind regards,

Marcel



IP network prefixes and IP host addresses should be prefixed by 'IP' and
any other network protocol 
Existing ripe-81++ objects: 
---------------------------
aut-num
community
as-macro
route

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