The Global Routing Registry

Hi,

  I'm sure you guys are busy rolling out 181, but when you get a moment to
breathe...  Should we start talking about building the Global Registry:
e.g., both of our servers returning both of our data?  (Without this, of
course, tools like prtraceroute will only work worldwide if run from the 
Merit server).  I'd be interested in talking details with someone on this.


  On a slightly similar issue:

  In trying to prepare documentation and presentation, I'm stumbling over
names for the Global Registry, and for the various portions therein.

   "RIPE.db" and "The RIPE Database" are pretty well defined at the moment.
   "The Global Routing Registry" ("GRR"??) seems pretty well defined
							    intuitively.
   At the moment, Merit's official (but not very well filled) public
	   routing registry is called "MERITRR", which is the name users
	   have to append to the "source:" line to register something.
	   This name was chosen before we were confirmed as an RA award
	   recipient.  We probably should change this to "RADB".
   We have dumps of the PRDB data (40K route objects, etc) in our 
	   local "PRDB.db".  These are currently returned by our whois
	   server and should be useful with prtraceroute.  We expect
	   this database will be either frozen or retired in April '95.


Do you all ready have canonical names for these database components?  If 
not, what do you think of:

        "Global Routing Registry"
   and "Routing Registry DataBase" ("RRDB")  for the whole worldwide one?

   "RIPE" and "RA" ("RIPE.db" and "RA.db") for the names of the specific
	pieces that are running now.  (and "PRDB"/"PRDB.db").

   Similar names for new players.

?

--Dale



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