Hi all,
Henk Steenman and Susan Hares are working on a proposal for
'CLNS routing-domain object for the RIPE database'. One of the aim of
this proposal is to be as close to the ripe-81++ objects as possible.
Now, instead of defining a new set of objects I have the following
proposal:
Network protocol address prefixes and hosts should be prefixed by
a two character protocol identifier.
For the current IP networks: IP192.87.45.0/24
For CLNS networks: NS39.756f.1111/40
Autonomous numbers (AS): AS1104 (already defined in rip-81++)
Routing Domain Identifier: RD39.528f.1103
To prefix numbers would also simplify any transitions to IPng and allow
the usage of the RIPE database also for other network protocols. Due to
CIDR IP & NSAP network numbers are both classless and are prefixed by
a number of bits.
Maybe someone has a better idea about prefixes to use. I just made them
equal to the already defined AS number prefix ('AS').
The following attributes from ripe-81++ would get a more general
'touch':
attribute object
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route route
origin route
component route
inetnum inetnum
New objects needed for CLNS:
rdi Routing Domain Identifier (comparable to aut-num object)
(maybe even these objects could be merged, especially because
AS numbers can be mapped into RDI's in IDRP)
rd-macro Equal to 'as-macro' object, for IDRP RDI's.
Any comments ?
Kind regards,
Marcel
IP network prefixes and IP host addresses should be prefixed by 'IP' and
any other network protocol
Existing ripe-81++ objects:
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aut-num
community
as-macro
route
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