The addition of guarded fields

---- Gilles Farrache writes:
> 
> Marten,
> 
> I think that the RIPE NCC have to split blocks. RIPE NCC is a
> neutral organisation that can do it without problems. If we
> do not agree on that, that means a very long procedure to update
> the guarded fields, and I believe that no service provider
> will want to rely on the efficiency of a NIC for its routing
> policy. So that mean that nobody will use those fields for
> routing, so the information may be completly out of date.

I think we, as part of the european networking community, should pursue
the spreading of technical knowledge among network providers and
network operators. IP routing is not a trivial issue for the time being,
and the best results in routing coordination is obtained, in my opinion,
when the largest possible number of network operators do the right thing.
This is the spirit of the Internet, I think.
The NCC is a neutral organizations but this does not mean they should
act on behalf of network operators. The net result could be a minor
diffusion of relevant technical knowledge.
Service providers and even large network users communities should know
what they are doing when registering networks, creating guarded fields.

Also, local registries (down the tree from the NCC) must improve their
efficiency. The Internet is growing very very fast in Europe and we
have to use solutions that scale. A do-all NCC is not the solution, I guess.
I think the NCC is going is the opposite direction (i.e. proposing
the PRIDE project, which I feel a very important activity in the next future)

> But I agree with Blasco on one point, the maintainer of the block
> must be inform that the block has been splitted

Thank you, Gilles.

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