On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 1:13 PM Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > hi camron > > sad to say, the days of faxing around number assigments have passed. > the kiddie googlers who wrote the geofeeds rfc probably have not even > seen a fax machine. they just did not like having a hundred gnomes in > the basement dealing with everybody's formats. given silicon valley > housing costs, gnome armies do not scale well. and, imiho, the format > they developed is sufficiently boring that it might work. > > ten thousand providers emailing each other spreadsheets is not very > pretty or reliable at global scale. the plague is teaching normal folk > the concept of exponential. > > so where A *finds* B's geofeed data is an ugly issue. i agree that rpsl > sucks. like democracy, it may suck less than the alternatives. but if > you have a better suggestion, puhleeze! > > > 2. Why can’t arin just provide me a web portal to add city / state > > info in my already existing rpki roa form? > > and then where do those data go? you wanna go through the ietf process > of putting it in the rpki, which has no 'remarks' as an intermediate > hack? > > and 10,000 consumers of the data would have to sign arin legal papers. > and arin is just one corner of a large world and becoming less and less > relevant. > > as to using zip codes; aside from the international issues, in many > locales postal codes are sufficiently specific to reveal personal > identity. or at least this is why some geofeed designers told me they > avoided postal codes. but this document is not about those choices > anyway; geofeed file format was assumed. > > i hope you noted that the rpki-based signing is entirely optional. i > certainly do not sign my geofeed files, and am not aware of any other > deployment of this tech which does. > > randy >
Hi Randy, Just business in this email. I gave your I-D a try in the real world, and it does not work with a major player. I thought you might know this, and could have saved me a few hours of tinkering... But to help others along, inetnum does not work at RADB. Web form, email, nada.