Bill, I agree with your general line of reasoning, but would likely characterize RIPE as an RIR *and* operator forum... formulating and reviewing recommendations on operational matters make some sense as a result.
As to the particular set of prefixes, there's a great question as to what criteria make a particular network "important"... one could easily come up with a list of extremely popular commercial sites (CNN, Amazon, etc.) which might be more noticeable if route damped for an hour. /John At 4:06 AM +1200 9/3/04, Bill Manning wrote: >RIPE is the RIR for Europe. RIPE-229 is, from my viewpoint, arbitrary and capricious. >the root servers are -ONE- set of interesting servers. what about the web sites >that point >to these "important" documents? or the time servers, or my NOC & monitoring machines? > >The idea of an Internet Registry stepping into giving routing advice is a leap of >faith. >An RIR can tell you what was delegated - but presuming to give advice on what is >important >for everyone that uses IP protocols is over the top.
