[db-wg] In-band notification mechanism?

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:51:52PM +0000, ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> You seem to now be suggesting that a form of NRTM for only routing
> information (IRR data) and open to anyone without a contract would
> satisfy what you are looking for.

Yes.

> I thought NRTM is a pull mechanism not a push?

A client connects to the NRTM server, and asks "did anything change
since serial X?" where serial X is the last serial the client saw.

> Aris mentioned you need this info to 'create filters'. Not being a
> routing expert, is this something you do periodically or in real time
> as routing information changes?

Filters are generated 'periodically', perhaps once a minute! But not as
routing information changes.

> If it's periodically then to pull an edited NRTM stream, only
> containing operational routing data updates, would work. If you want
> changes to routing data in the RIPE Database to trigger filter
> creation then you do need a new push mechanism.  

indeed.

Kind regards,

Job