On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
Herein is the value, the RIR (RIPE) is also the holder of the policy. With ARIN, this is not the case, there is RADB and a number of other RR's that are out there for varying reasons, some personal and some business.Yes, RIPE rock. Please make it all not suck.
Unfortunately, RIPE DB will allow anyone to add any route objects for prefixes that are not under the RIPE management :-(. For example, anyone could add route objects for most of DNS root server prefixes.
For those prefixes that are managed by RIPE, it's good. But the above feature dilutes the trustworthiness of RIPE DB slightly...
-- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
