Re: Strange information in different routing regestries?

[Anne Marcel Roorda <]

In message <002901c1638f$e9d68db0$0390a8c0@localhost>, "Nipper, Arnold" writes:

> 
> 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.

Hi,

  There is no one authoritive document that contains all policy information.

  There are several resources that can help you get an overview of what
is available. A good start would be the following.

http://www.radb.net/
http://www.irr.net/docs/list.html

  Please keep in mind that noone is required to maintain his/her routing
policy in a RR. The following link has more info on why RR's are a good thing.

http://www.irr.net/docs/faq.html

  Once you've gone through all that, and start looking at the documented
policies, you may notice that some (most?) are not very accurate. There
is a lot of outdated, and contradictory information in the RR's.

Regards,

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