Special ftp access for IRR?

> 
> > The point being that folks can and will register in multiple .db's. This 
> > seems to indicate that a bit more thought will need to be expended on the
> > first steps as indicated above.
> > 
> > --bill
> 
> I think this is orthogonal to what daniel suggests. I.e. one can still
> register AS1 in ripe.db and radb.db in Daniel's model. However, if
> radb gets a request from AS1 to update the copy in ripe.db, it should
> 1) forward it to ripe for processing 
> 2) return the user a message to submit the request to ripe.
> 
> I think we should do 2.
> 
> Cengiz
> 

Two is fine, although I think that it should be automatic.
This is only half the problem.  When collecting these dbs for evaluating 
policy expression, there is the possibility that different policies 
are registered in different dbs.  There is the current method of 
first-in, which is fraught with difficulty.  We need a way to allow
those that register to express preference.  Eric Carroll and I worked
up a method at NANOG to allow the signing of database objects.

This places a larger workload on the db manager(s) who parse more than one
db to search for duplicates and then prefer signed ones.  Anyone care
to see a more fleashed out version of this?

-- 
--bill



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