On Nov 07, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > > However, the discussion at hand seems to me to be about the data > > consumption side, I feel that you raised the implicit question "Are > > RIR's IRR relevant?" to which my answer is YES. > unfortunately, the answer for many operators is NO. they voted with > their feet. you can say what they SHOULD do. my family has a lot of > jokes about how the world should be. So apparently this depends on local customs: in my area it is quite common for regional operators to use the RIPE IRR as a single stop solution for their prefix-lists generation needs, so it is very useful to be able to register there as well the few prefixes of customers with non-RIPE assignments.
For a practical example see: whois -r -T route -i origin AS12637 It shows a prefix from a non-RIPE network, and if it were not possible to register it there I would have had to contact each one of my peer who build their filters from the RIPE IRR and ask them to add it manually. > the ripe region is an outlier. and in a good way. we should not induce > to other regions without measurement and can not tell operators there > how to run or register their networks. This is not the goal: the point is that (some) RIPE operators want to register in the RIPE IRR the prefixes of their own foreign customers who come to Europe with ARIN networks. -- ciao, Marco
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