[members-discuss] RIPE DB NRTM access.

Den 1/7/12 6:12 PM, skrev Pawel Tyll:
> Hello people (and ticket bots :>),
>
> I  wanted  to  do  some  BGP  filtering automation today, learned some
> interesting  things  in  the  process. I decided on setting up a local
> mirror of RIPE IRR and was quite puzzled with reasoning behind this:
>
> http://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/nrtm-mirroring
>
> So,  I  can  download  the  whole  database  snapshot  for  free  from
> ftp.ripe.net,   wasting   bandwidth   and   other resources, or on the
> other  hand  I  can  pay for doing things the right and efficient way,
> which in the process is effectively cheaper for all involved parties.
>
> So  the  question  is  -  what gives? :) - why does RIPE insist that I
> download>200MB of compressed data instead of catching up probably few
> hundred KB of daily changes?
>
> --Pawel.


I'm quite sure it is more expensive to administrate and receive a stream 
of changes than downloading a static file with no administration:)  
Bandwidth is cheap and static content scales extremely well.