Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

[Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>]

On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 11:28 America/Vancouver, alex () yuriev com 
wrote:

> > It doesnt cost a million dollars to have access to a RR, its somewhat 
> > less! You
> > pay for your domains you pay for your IPs you pay for your ASN you 
> > pay for your
> > SSL, so why be shocked you pay a little for this too? And if everyone 
> > filters
> > your prefixes that will be operational value enough to join!
>
> Because it provides me *no* service what so ever.

Then don't use it. Surely this is not rocket science.

> > > What does a RADB tell you about a non-transit network that you can't 
> > > see
> >
> > It tells you who it belongs to, where it should be coming from, 
> > possibly contact
> > details.
>
> Presuming that it is correct, which it is NOT in a large percentage of
> cases. So again, why am I paying to someone to provide me incorrect
> information?

You're not. You're paying to provide other people with information 
about you. Retrieving other peoples' incorrect information is free.


Joe