[db-wg] New NWI for geofeed?
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Massimo Candela
massimo at us.ntt.net
Wed Apr 7 01:37:09 CEST 2021
Hi all, On 06/04/2021 19:23, Randy Bush wrote: >> I have CCed Randy Bush as I thought he might be able to clarify what >> was meant by the following: >>> To minimize the load on RIR whois [RFC3912] services, use of the >>> RIR's FTP [RFC0959] services SHOULD be the preferred access. This >>> also provides bulk access instead of fetching with a tweezers. >> >> I think one of the most important things in general here is seeing >> what is within the scope of the db-wg to decide and what should >> probably be defined by the IETF spec. >> And also to try to get some kind of implementation out as quickly as >> possible while still doing it properly. >> Because as you mention, the remarks format appears to be used quite a >> bit and I imagine it probably grows in use at a decent rate. (I have >> no data to back this up though, it is just a guess) > > massimo is more aware of the details of current deployment and how that > affects the rirs. i suspect the load of the remarks: versions would be > the same as that of geofeed:. the suggestion to use bulk fetch as > opposed to object-by-object seems simple and the benefits should be > pretty obvious i would think. see msssimo's existing tooling (cited in > the internet-draft) for implementation.>> -The IETF doc 'Finding geofeeds' says "To minimize the load on RIR At the moment there are 1350 prefixes with geofeeds coming from remarks/comments, mostly RIPE and ARIN. This number more than doubled in the last ~4 months. If a service is interested in importing all the geofeeds, the generic daily whois dumps produced by the rirs are perfect---including the public anonymized ones, since we just need the remarks. The implementation [1] uses such dumps. To the best of my knowledge, the geo providers supporting our draft are also using such dumps (apparently some were already familiar with them). Ciao, Massimo [1] https://github.com/massimocandela/geofeed-finder
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