On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 12:37:24PM -0800, Tim Osburn wrote:
Brian and All, I always thought it was a waste of a routable /8 to not have it routed on the Internet, otherwise why are people just not using IANA space instead? However, if it is to be routed on the internet I think some ground rules must be established of what is and is not acceptable and penalties for not following the rules and established guidelines.
I imagine we'll have to have rules and some sort of binding agreement/contract.
Additionally, and I bring this up again, a RWHOIS server should/must be used (tied in with ARIN on the 44/8 allocation) so that people can query specific address space that will return the contact/owner of whatever space is being advertised for whatever reason. Additionally, IRR entries should also be required for anyone wanting to advertise space via BGP. Those should be some common sence polices that need to be followed at the very minimum.
Yes, we'd have to do that, and that brings up the issue of who is to do this - I'm willing but I'm running out of time to do these sorts of things. We're going to need volunteers to run the rwhois server, to keep the data up to date, to update the IRR entries, and so on.
This is going to be a big commitment if we decide to do it. In an all volunteer organization, how will we do what needs to be done? - Brian