[c-nsp] IRR Tool

[Mark Tinka]

On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 04:43:06 PM Jason Lixfeld 
wrote:

> On 2013-02-27, at 3:46 AM, Ahmed Hilmy 
<hilmy.aa at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Once we apply this feature, I will never notify my UP
> > Links for any prefix to be advertise.
> 
> Once you publish your own RPSL objects in one of the
> registries, your upstreams will generate/update their
> filter based on your objects.  Not all providers,
> however, use IRR data to build filters.  Some do no
> filtering at all, others require manual emails where you
> would request that they update their filters whenever
> you or one of your downstream customers announces a new
> prefix.

Right, not every ISP supports RPSL. Even for some that do, 
their implementations are broken that many times, you have 
to manually nudge them to go and beat up their policy 
servers to push updates out to their routers (worse, still, 
if they have quite a lag between policy changes in the route 
registries and how often they run their local policy servers 
against them).

RPKI will go a long way here, and I hope ALL operators will 
(eventually) support this, or else what's the point. Of 
course, local RPSL implementations and other IRR toolsets 
will still be in use for operators that want to 
automatically manage customer NLRI, but that is a by product 
of RPKI anyway :-).

Mark.
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