Alternatives to RADB

Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org> Sat, 31 January 2004 00:44 UTC

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From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Subject: Alternatives to RADB
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:38:04 -0500
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
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On a purely operational note, and ignoring (having not read) the other 
aspects of this thread:

On 30 Jan 2004, at 18:01, Dean Anderson wrote:

> It seems to me that denying my participation in the RADB may be a
> violation of IETF/ISOC/ICANN rules.

Merit operates the RADB, which is one of many loosely-associated public 
databases known as the Internet Routing Registry (IRR), each modelled 
(sometimes slightly loosely, with respect to local extensions) on 
RFC2622, "Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)". The RADB is a 
for-fee service run by Merit of their own volition.

An example list of alternative, independently-operated databases within 
this vague "IRR" umbrella can be found by looking through the mirrored 
databases at:

   ftp://ftp.merit.edu/radb/dbase/

Each of those comes from a different database. All the databases are, 
in general, run independently.

There is nothing magical and special about the RADB in the context of 
the operation of the IRR, and if Merit does not want you as a customer 
there are plenty of other suppliers you can talk to. Perhaps start 
here: <http://www.altdb.net/>.


Joe