Hrm, sent several hours ago and still hasn't had nanog. Resending in-case it got snarfed by hungry routers on the intarweb.
----- Forwarded message from Marius Strom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:36:14 -0600 From: Marius Strom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Discussion Group: Web Based tool for tracking circuits Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, I've created a "carrier-neutral" mailing list on yahoogroups to house people who are interested in such a system. Interested developers and such should subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We can start discussions on what's out there, how to integrate things, possibly create a sourceforge project, etc. It seems everyone wants one, but no one's got one completed (other than Excel spreadsheets). On Mon, 08 Mar 2004, william(at)elan.net wrote: > Several commercial ip allocation systems exist (cost thousands, I came > across couple of them but did not keep list). The closest opensource on > this is freeipdb (http://www.freeipdb.org), but its not very feature-rich. > The IRM project (which I've never heard about until I just demod it right > now), comes much closer to what maybe needed and it does seem like it can > be converted to serve ISP allocation needs somewhat easily and is quite > extensible for shared enviroments, but in any case, such project needs to > be done right, i.e.: > 1. Creating mail list and first discussing and list of goals and features > we want in this system. > 2. Looking at existing project to see which can feets best or parts of which > of which projects can possible be combined together > 2. Creating sourceforge (or other) project and assiging features to be > implemented to developers. > Etc. > > If others are interested lets get together to work on it. I'm willing to > help in possible support for rwhois server or automated swips to arin and > some other back-end support where I have some experience I'm guessing > that at least half a dozen people need to get involved and be willing to > spend some of their time (perhaps 10 hours/month) for this to come through > and most need to be php web developers if IRM is to be used as origin. > > If I receive favorable response privately about it and enough people are > willing to spend their time on it, I'll let you know about what the project > development webpage would be (i.e. sourceforge most likely) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- /-------------------------------------------------> Marius Strom | Always carry a short length of fibre-optic cable. Professional Geek | If you get lost, then you can drop it on the System/Network Admin | ground, wait 10 minutes, and ask the backhoe http://www.marius.org/ | operator how to get back to civilization. \-------------| Mike Andrews |-------------------->
