Definitive Names for RIPE-181 Databases

Daniel, Tony, Marten, 

  What do you think of the following names for referring to various
parts of the "Global Routing Registry"?  As we try to write up PR and
documentation and prepare presentations (like for NANOG next Monday)
not having canonical names for things is starting to get in the way.

  Do you all ready have standards for some of these that I've missed
along the way?  (I have no desire to break existing tradition):


   GRR, GRRDB, "Global Routing Registry" -- The set of global interworking
	routing registries including RIPE.db, RA.db, and all others
	that interchange data.  Analysis tools work on the GRR in order
	to get a full routing view, rather than just on a single
	administrative piece of the GRR, such as the RA.db or RIPE.db.

	[I personally think "GRR" is an aggressive and ugly acronym,
	but I strongly like the term "Global Routing Registry"]

   RIPE.db, "The RIPE Database" -- Ripe's database.  

   RRDB, "Routing Registry Data Base": (One name we are using now).
	A nice name, but it *sounds* global, and this is confusing
	when it really means "Just the Routing Arbiter's portion of
	the Global Routing Registry".  I am proposing that we stop
	using this term, and replace it by others.

   RADB, "RA.db", "Routing Arbiter DataBase" -- the official internal and 
	external name of the "raw" database run by the Routing Arbiter.
	(Currently "MERITRR").

   PGRR, "Processed Global Routing Registry" -- Suggested name for what
	has been referred to as the "cooked", "sanitized", "fixed",
	"processed" database:  the set of processed data that is used
	to produce the Route Server configuration files.  Note that 
	the content of this will include processed versions of the
	RADB+RIPEDB+CANETDB+MCIDB plus more stuff generated by
	Cengiz's View Generator.  (I can fill you in more on what
	this is about, if it isn't clear).

   MCI and CA*Net intend to run RIPE-181 registries, and will probably
	have their own database names like "MCI" and "CANET"

   MERITRR - This is the name currently used in templates to specify 
	Merit's current port of RIPE, I propose replacing this by "RADB".
	(This name was chosen last February, before NSF's choice of
	RA awardees could be talked about).

   PRDB.db - The RA database in RIPE format that has been dumped from
	PRDB information.  This will go away sometime.

   PRDB, "The PRDB itself" -- The Informix-based NSFNET/ANS Policy
	Routing Database, which is going away even sooner. 



--Dale



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