A ROUGH alternate proposal to CLNS DB for RIPE

Wilfried:

I'm thrilled to see your response.  The reason I proposed
this change was to align it with the IP CIDR object.
My hope was we could then leverage the IP CIDR work
to quickly implement the CLNS.  So, I am looking
at implementation at RIPE NCC and MERIT.   I would
like to expand prtraceroute and whois servers to 
use the CLNS.

The host.txt option is certainly open to question.
I suggest we talk about the benefits of the proposal
without this section.

To discuss the "host.txt" section, I suggest we query the
noop at merit.edu tuba at merit.edu lists to determine the
distribution of the DNS NSAP object.  If it is far enough
along, then we should can this.  Otherwise, it may be
a very useful "bootstrapping" function to support.
If you agree, I will send notes to this and the rare-clns-wg4
mail list.

In the implementation these objects could be kept in a 
different sequence of files that could be easily cut
when the DNS NSAP object is widely deployed.

Again, many thanks for such a thought
response!


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