On Nov 07, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
However, the discussion at hand seems to me to be about the data consumption side, I feel that you raised the implicit question "Are RIR's IRR relevant?" to which my answer is YES. unfortunately, the answer for many operators is NO. they voted with their feet. you can say what they SHOULD do. my family has a lot of jokes about how the world should be. So apparently this depends on local customs: in my area it is quite common for regional operators to use the RIPE IRR as a single stop solution for their prefix-lists generation needs, so it is very useful to be able to register there as well the few prefixes of customers with non-RIPE assignments.
For a practical example see: whois -r -T route -i origin AS12637 It shows a prefix from a non-RIPE network, and if it were not possible to register it there I would have had to contact each one of my peer who build their filters from the RIPE IRR and ask them to add it manually.
the ripe region is an outlier. and in a good way. we should not induce to other regions without measurement and can not tell operators there how to run or register their networks. This is not the goal: the point is that (some) RIPE operators want to register in the RIPE IRR the prefixes of their own foreign customers who come to Europe with ARIN networks.
-- ciao, Marco