Andrew: BGP->Route object translator

Dale S. Johnson (dsj at merit.edu) on May 4:
> Or:  should andrew have his own "source: ALTERNET".  He doesn't have
> to run 181 at all;  all he would have to do is run that script into
> a file once per day or more, and put the file up for FTP.  The rest
> of the IRR would then pick that file up and post it through their
> whois servers.
> 
> Sprint would quickly follow suit, I think.
> 
> The RADB may have little to do but to be a collator and publisher of ISP's 
> .db files, but that is sort of the direction we have all proposed.
> 
> --Dale

Interesting idea. I was thinking along the same lines. Dividing IRR
into public and private registries. Private registries run their own
systems but may not provide public access to this data such as whois,
and not necessarily have copies of other databases. They may not
be running Ripe-181 systems, but are able to convert to it from their
internal format (like Andrew).

Public sites would be responsible for a set of private registries and
collect their data and the data from the other public
registries. Public sites would also provide services on this data,
such as whois, making it available for ftp.

This is probably a good idea if the number of registries increases
beyond a point and is a first step to an hierarchical registry
organization.

Cengiz

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