Re: Strange information in different routing regestries?

["Nipper, Arnold" <]

Vladimir A. Jakovenko wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 04:59:05PM +0100, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet
wrote:
> >>Subj: Strange information in different routing regestries?
> >
> >  Well, "strange" ... ?
> >
> >  Some organisations decided to run Routing Registries in order to
support
> >  their mission and/or their own operational environment.
> >
> >  In general, there is no mechanism to synchronise duplicate or multiple
> >  parallel entries when an update is made to _one_ of the registries.
>

Ther can't be duplicates. At least one attribute has to be different. And
how would you what "false" or "right" is. Only syntax checking is done. Not
even simplest form of semantic checkings  like consistency of prefixes. You
ay well add x.y.78.0/22.

> There could be at least one mechanism to prevent creation of
duplicate/wrong
> records in Routing Registries - to limit creation of entries only to
limited
> set of inetnum/as-num ranges.
>
> >  It is up to the user/maintainer of a certain block of addresses (or his
> >  or her up-stream ISP(s)) to (manually) keep those entries up-to-date or
> >  to get them removed - whatever is appropriate.
>
> Sorry for may be so stupid question, but are there any documents which
> describe relations between Routing Registries, Regional Internet
Registries
> and ICANN in the view of one distributed, non contradicted Routing
Policies
> Database ?
>

AFAIK there are no documents.


Regards,

-- Arnold