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Internet Registry Object
by Daniel Karrenberg 20 Apr '94

20 Apr '94

I have an action to propose a "registry" object for the RIPE database. Defining such an object is not so much of a problem. In fact we already have the information needed in tagged format. Look at the Irish Internet registries as an example: org: EUnet IE status: Provider person: Michael Nowlan address: O'Reilly Institute address: Trinity College address: Dublin 2 country: Ireland (ie) phone: +353 1 671 9361 phone: +353 1 702 1787 fax-no: +353 1 677 2204 e-mail: mn(a)dec4ie.ieunet.ie org: HEAnet status: Provider person: Mike Norris address: 21 Fitzwilliam Square address: Dublin 2 country: Ireland (ie) phone: +353 1 6612748 fax: +353 1 6610492 e-mail: mnorris(a)hea.ie org: IE EUnet status: Registry of Last Resort person: Michael Nowlan address: O'Reilly Institute address: Trinity College address: Dublin 2 country: Ireland (ie) phone: +353 1 671 9361 phone: +353 1 702 1787 fax-no: +353 1 677 2204 e-mail: mn(a)dec4ie.ieunet.ie However putting this in the database is not all. We need to define a querying mechanism. This is where the problem starts. Options: 1) Return all the regsitries on queries for the country code together with the toplevel domain object. 2) Return all registries on queries for "cc-reg" or some such magic. 3) Add a special flag to whois to query for registries. All these options are not very applealing because all of them have a big potential for user confusion. Also I am convinced that this information should always be presented together with some information about what a local registry is and what it is not. What did we want to achieve by putting this information in the database? - easy updates via the normal means - access to up to date information at all times between publications of the local registry list We can achieve the -more important- second goal by making this information available via the RIPE document store together with the explanatory information. This could be implemented quickly (before the RIPE meeting). The first goal cannot be achieved that way. But since the amount of info and changes is expected to be small, the NCC can process update requests manually. So my conclusion is not to include this in the database but in the document store. If I have not considered some important argument, please let me know pricately or via a discussion on these lists. If there is consensus we will implement it that way. Daniel

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Re: Internet Registry Object
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 20 Apr '94

20 Apr '94

>With 113 relatively stable entities I do not think that manual update >by the NCC is a problem. > >Daniel Daniel, if you want to handle the update manually, fine with me! Can we then use the ripe-dbm mailbox and use the tagged format you have already? E.g. let's assume my phone number changes and I update my person entry. Then it would be natural to think about having the same thing updated in the IR-entry. >PS: Also an answer to Wilfired's message. Thanks :-) Wilfried.

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RE: Internet Registry Object
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 19 Apr '94

19 Apr '94

Dear all, lend me a couple of minutes to describe my expectations, without going into technical implementation details, as described by Daniel below... 1. How about using proven and widely known tools and info-channels? For me this means putting objects into the database, and maybe having them guarded (for ease of update). I don't really believe in manual update procedures... Finding info should be possible both through the Interactive Info Service at the NCC, and probably through the WWW interface. 2. Lets investigate a setup, - where we get the over-all info from the document store (the envelope), - more details by looking into a WWW compound document and getting - the details dynamically out of the database (clicking on an item). Please feel free to give me a blow on the head... Cheers, Wilfried. ________________________________________________________________________________ Daniel said: I have an action to propose a "registry" object for the RIPE database. Defining such an object is not so much of a problem. In fact we already have the information needed in tagged format. Look at the Irish Internet registries as an example: org: EUnet IE status: Provider person: Michael Nowlan address: O'Reilly Institute address: Trinity College address: Dublin 2 country: Ireland (ie) phone: +353 1 671 9361 phone: +353 1 702 1787 fax-no: +353 1 677 2204 e-mail: mn(a)dec4ie.ieunet.ie org: HEAnet status: Provider person: Mike Norris address: 21 Fitzwilliam Square address: Dublin 2 country: Ireland (ie) phone: +353 1 6612748 fax: +353 1 6610492 e-mail: mnorris(a)hea.ie org: IE EUnet status: Registry of Last Resort person: Michael Nowlan address: O'Reilly Institute address: Trinity College address: Dublin 2 country: Ireland (ie) phone: +353 1 671 9361 phone: +353 1 702 1787 fax-no: +353 1 677 2204 e-mail: mn(a)dec4ie.ieunet.ie However putting this in the database is not all. We need to define a querying mechanism. This is where the problem starts. Options: 1) Return all the regsitries on queries for the country code together with the toplevel domain object. 2) Return all registries on queries for "cc-reg" or some such magic. 3) Add a special flag to whois to query for registries. All these options are not very applealing because all of them have a big potential for user confusion. Also I am convinced that this information should always be presented together with some information about what a local registry is and what it is not. What did we want to achieve by putting this information in the database? - easy updates via the normal means - access to up to date information at all times between publications of the local registry list We can achieve the -more important- second goal by making this information available via the RIPE document store together with the explanatory information. This could be implemented quickly (before the RIPE meeting). The first goal cannot be achieved that way. But since the amount of info and changes is expected to be small, the NCC can process update requests manually. So my conclusion is not to include this in the database but in the document store. If I have not considered some important argument, please let me know pricately or via a discussion on these lists. If there is consensus we will implement it that way. Daniel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: <dfk(a)ripe.net> Received: from email.univie.ac.at by access.cc.univie.ac.at (MX V3.1) with SMTP; Fri, 15 Apr 1994 14:14:45 +0100 Received: from ncc.ripe.net by email.univie.ac.at with SMTP (PP) id <29896-0(a)email.univie.ac.at>; Fri, 15 Apr 1994 14:14:59 +0200 Received: from reif.ripe.net by ncc.ripe.net with SMTP id AA27717 (5.65a/NCC-2.2); Fri, 15 Apr 1994 14:14:47 +0200 Received: from localhost.ripe.net by reif.ripe.net with SMTP id AA12109 (5.65a/NCC-2.1); Fri, 15 Apr 1994 14:14:47 +0200 Message-ID: <9404151214.AA12109(a)reif.ripe.net> X-Organization: RIPE Network Coordination Centre X-Phone: +31 20 592 5065 Sender: Daniel.Karrenberg(a)ripe.net

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Merit Routing Registry
by epg＠merit.edu 18 Apr '94

18 Apr '94

Merit is happy to announce the Merit Routing Registry. Whereas Merit designed and manages the PRDB (Policy Routing Data Base) for the NSFNET service, RIPE pioneered a policy routing registry for the European community. The RIPE Routing Registry is based on the document, RIPE-81. With RIPE's collaboration, Merit installed RIPE-81 software and then extended the policy descriptions in order to realize more complex policies. The Merit Routing Registry will be a companion registry to the RIPE Routing Registry and is intended to serve the community that is not served by RIPE. This is a new service and we consider ourselves still in the beta phase. Registrations may be basic policy descriptions defined in RIPE-81 or complex routing policy descriptions defined in the Extended Policy Syntax document by Chen, Gerich, Joncheray, and Yu. The Extended Policy Syntax document may be found on rrdb.merit.edu:pub/meritrr/policy_syntax.txt. Documentation for using the MeritRR can be found on rrdb.merit.edu:pub/meritrr. Merit and RIPE anticipate that the combined registries will provide a more comprehensive picture of the routing interactions in the Internet. We are working together to allow the two registries to appear like one virtual registry to the various tools that are developed. We welcome your comments on all aspects of this project. For more information, please respond to rradmin(a)rrdb.merit.edu. Elise Gerich, Merit Network, Inc. Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC

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Re: Corrupted data
by Tony Bates 15 Apr '94

15 Apr '94

Following on from the mail yesterday about errors in aut-num objects in the database. Please find a new set of database errors on ftp.ripe.net:ripe/dbase/errors/* -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 0 Apr 15 11:59 as-macro.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 5319 Apr 15 11:55 aut-num.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 0 Apr 15 11:58 bdry-gw.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 0 Apr 15 12:00 community.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 0 Apr 15 12:01 dom-prefix.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 103796 Apr 15 12:06 domain.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 58285 Apr 15 12:46 inetnum.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 320852 Apr 15 12:38 person.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 0 Apr 15 12:00 rout-pr.errors As you can see person has the most errors. Please can all (especialy local-irs take a look at these files and correct where possible. Here's a summary of the amount of errors over what is in the database. Object Number in DB Number in Error aut-num 322 11 domain 3222 354 inetnum 16107 176 person 16366 1072 Please look at these files. Remember many of the errors are where mandatoy fields are not in the object rather than syntax errors. The next round will be to start chasing people individually. Thanks, --Tony.

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Corrupted data
by Laurent Joncheray 14 Apr '94

14 Apr '94

Could you clean up these data? Some of the policies are not RIPE-81 compliant. Thanks. alc: reading file "/f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db" (RIPE-DB)... ERROR (201339): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*ao: AS1853" ERROR (201348): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*ai: AS1800 ANY" ERROR (201349): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*ai: AS1880 ANY" ERROR (201368): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1755 100 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (201369): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1883 200 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (201382): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1880 100 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (201395): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1880 100 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (201396): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1883 200 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (201414): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1755 100 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (203306): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*ao: AS1755 AND AND NOT (AS1729)" ERROR (205269): object *am undefined alc: Printing stat for db RIPE-DB alc: ipblock: 16075 objects, 38766 count alc: autsys: 321 objects, 321 count -- Laurent Joncheray, E-Mail: lpj(a)merit.edu Merit Network Inc, 1071 Beal Avenue, Phone: +1 (313) 936 2065 Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Fax: +1 (313) 747 3745 "This is the end, Beautiful friend. This is the end, My only friend, the end" JM

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A ROUGH alternate proposal to CLNS DB for RIPE
by Susan Hares 06 Apr '94

06 Apr '94

Wilfried: I'm thrilled to see your response. The reason I proposed this change was to align it with the IP CIDR object. My hope was we could then leverage the IP CIDR work to quickly implement the CLNS. So, I am looking at implementation at RIPE NCC and MERIT. I would like to expand prtraceroute and whois servers to use the CLNS. The host.txt option is certainly open to question. I suggest we talk about the benefits of the proposal without this section. To discuss the "host.txt" section, I suggest we query the noop(a)merit.edu tuba(a)merit.edu lists to determine the distribution of the DNS NSAP object. If it is far enough along, then we should can this. Otherwise, it may be a very useful "bootstrapping" function to support. If you agree, I will send notes to this and the rare-clns-wg4 mail list. In the implementation these objects could be kept in a different sequence of files that could be easily cut when the DNS NSAP object is widely deployed. Again, many thanks for such a thought response! Sue Hares

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Re: A ROUGH alternate proposal to CLNS DB for RIPE
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 30 Mar '94

30 Mar '94

Hi Sue, Tony, > * I'd like some pointers on where to go from here. > * I send this document because my questions and alternate > * formats provoked no additional comments. > * >I guess from a RIPE DB point of view the next step needs for these new >objects to be agreed and for a RIPE document to come out of this. >What say the RIPE DB chairman. Wilfried ? (BTW, Sue and Victor could you please distribute this discussion to the appropriate lists @merit and @rare.nl, I deliberately shortened the Cc: list in order to save bandwidth) I've got to different opinions at the same time :-( The first one would say - we had a lengthy discussion in the RIPE-DB meetings, and we decided to implement the stuff according to the circulated proposal after minor improvement. The RIPE-NCC found no problem in implementing it. Unfortunately it turned out that there is room for considerable improvement (thanks to Sue's contribution!), thus my second opinion would say - as there is not yet wide-spread use of this object we should aim at the best solution that is economically feasable (implementation effort and quality of data). So let's go that way! Ok, now the technical part: I don't understand much of the game of NSAPs, RDIs, and the like :-( Thus I'd really like the folks who initially proposed the object and those who want to use it to review the situation and come up with a good-quality proposal. I'd like to have it circulated well before the next RIPE-Meeting because I'd like to eventually have final consensus in May. Henk, Victor, and the others who want to use it, please speak up! > * CLNS routing-domain object for the > * RIPE database > * Version 1.3B > * Feb 1994 >... > * 3) NETs host systems > * > * The DNS for CLNS system is under development. > * As a host.txt file was once used to bootstrap > * the internet, so a iso_hosts file must > * be generated to help boot strap the CLNP Internet. Right now I cannot clearly see the validity of this statement. I'd propose to provide an explanation why for example the use of IP-DNS or some other directory service is not possible to register hosts that are CLNP-capable. Also we would need a specification where, when, and how to convert the CLNS-hosts data in the RIPE-DB into an iso-hosts file. I think it is essential to describe the timeframe and the functional and resource limits (if any) of using the RIPE-DB for registering hosts and how to migrate the accumulated info afterwards to some form of CLNS-DNS or to whatever. Again, you know, when it comes to CLNS I may be terribly wrong :-) Wilfried. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Wilfried.Woeber(a)CC.UniVie.ac.at Computer Center - ACOnet : Vienna University : Tel: +43 1 4065822 355 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4065822 170 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : NIC: WW144 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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A ROUGH alternate proposal to CLNS DB for RIPE
by Susan Hares 28 Mar '94

28 Mar '94

Victor and all: This *very* rough draft is the start of an alternate proposal to be discussed at the ripe data base working group. Any comments would be welcomed on this. I started with Hank's proposal I'd like some pointers on where to go from here. I send this document because my questions and alternate formats provoked no additional comments. I suggest this alternate proposal to align things more closely to IP CIDR ideas. I thought that was the point of CIDR. I am in hopes this will help tools creation, but again since I have started anything like that I welcome comments. Are there on-line tools for CLNS traceroutes like prtraceroute? I welcome pointers. Again, thank-you for letting me comment. My comment should be taken as personal, and not representative of Merit. So flame at me. Sue Hares ---- CLNS routing-domain object for the RIPE database Version 1.3B Feb 1994 Susan Hares/Hank Steeman skh@merit.edu/Henk_Steenman@sara.nl CLNS routing-domain object Page 2 Introduction. ____________ In the RARE lower layer technology work group for CLNS it was recognised that in order to coordinate routing between CLNS routing domains a central registry for such domains was necessary. At a meeting of the work group at the 27 IETF in Amsterdam it was decided to write a registry specification. At this meeting the RIPE NCC offered to extend their database for IP domains/networks with CLNS related objects if a sound proposal came forward. Below is a revision of the 1.3 database description to include the following: RIPE-81++ features: - Registration of ISO addresses - Registration of Routing Policy - Registration of Aggregation policy The registration of ISO address needs to include the: 1) Network Layer Reachability (NLRI) information These are simply the Prefix passed in the routing protocols. Just as IP network numbers are passed in the IP routing protocols. 2) Routing Domain Identifier (RDI) Routing Domain Identifiers are the "AS number" equivalent for ISO routing protocols such as IDRP. The Routing Domain Identifiers are take out of the same address space as the rest of the ISO addresses. This address spaces minimizes some allocation issues, but increases the need to register RDIs. The IDRP for IP specification allows an AS number to be mapped into RDI. RDI so mapped can be directly mapped into an AS. The registration should indicate if this registration space i is used. 3) NETs host systems The DNS for CLNS system is under development. As a host.txt file was once used to bootstrap the internet, so a iso_hosts file must be generated to help boot strap the CLNP Internet. The routing policy in this database is listed on an Routing domain basis. 1) Routing Domains attached to a Routing Domain 2) Address of Router that provides exit points for Routing Domain 3) Policy of what routes the Routing Domain will take from other domains. (This equivalent to the IP AS-IN policy used by CLNP). 4) Policy of what the Routing Domain will send to other routing Domains (This equivalent to the IP AS-OUT policy used by CLNP). 5) Communities this RD belongs 6) Distribution Policy The Aggregation policy in this database object is listed as: 1) Aggregator location Location is listed as both RDI (AS) and the NET 2) Prefix that represents the aggregation 3) prefixes that will be are routed by the aggregated prefix 4) Type of Aggregation Whether the aggregation is proxy or or by the RD holding the routing. Below a description of a three database objects for CLNS routing domains are defined. These objects directly mirror the IP objects defined in the paper RIPE 81 [1] to improve the cross use of tools. The following uses of the information are envisioned: 1) The attributes describing routing policy are intended to be set-up such that routing tables for static inter-domain routing can be derived from them or existing routing can be checked against the described policy. 2) Bootstrapping host to host communication by providing an iso_hosts table 3) With the advent the dynamic inter-domain routin, these objects may be used to configure the initial IDRP sesions. It is desired that tools are made to serve these tasks. It is understood that the object as described below is subject to change when CLNS routing developes. In an appendix, some generally used combinations of the Authority and Format Identifier (AFI) and the Initial Domain Identifier (IDI) are shown. The RIPE database expects NSAPs or prefixes to be formatted with dots, seperating the first two and then every next four digits. CLNS routing-domain object Page 3 Object Summary _______________ Registration of ISO Prefixes: i-prefix: iso-prefix/length prefix-name: character descr: country: admin-c: tech-c: colors: RDI: community: rev-srv: changed: source: Registration of ISO capability Hosts: i-net: NET type: <bis> <is> <host> host-name: character descr: country: admin-c: tech-c: guardian: saps: RDI: applications: rev-srv: changed: source: Registration of RDIs and policy: RDI: [ASxxxx or RDIxxx] RDI-name: descr: RDI-in: RDI-out: default: (points to what RDI) bis: NETs tech-c: admin-c: guardian: source: changed: Registration of Aggregates: i-aggr: iso-prefix descr: i-aggr-prefix: (repeated several times) i-aggr-type: <proxy> <originator> country: admin-c: tech-c: connect: i-aggr-RDI: rev-srv: changed: source: ====== iso_prefix: Defines an IDRP prefix. It consists of a NSAP prefix followed by a "/" and a length Example: 47.0005.80ff.ff00/48 RDI: Defines an unique routing domain, characterised by a NSAP prefix , within a certain prefix hierarchy. Example: RDI: RD39.528f.1100 AS1200 - Use the AS to RDI mapping used by IDRP for IP RDI-name: String representing the routing domain. Format: Text string. Example: RDI-name: SURFnet-CLNS descr: Description of the organisation and place of its location Format is equal to the descr attribute as defined for IP autonomous systems in [1]. CLNS routing-domain object Page 4 RDI-in: Description of accepted routing domain prefixes, from other domain BIS. Analogue to "as-in" in [1]. Format:< dom-prefix > < cost> <routing policy expression > For every BIS you peer with, there should be such an entry <dom-prefix> is the routing domain prefix where the BIS you peer with belongs to. <cost> is a relative cost to discriminate between different routes to the same domain. The lowest cost gives the most preferred route. <routing policy expression > can be expressed in the following way's 1: list of "dom-prefixes" Example: RDI-in: RD39.528f.1103 100 39.124F/24 47.0005/24 Example2: RDI-IN: AS1139 100 39 47 2: KEYWORD Only one keyword for the moment ANY - accept everything you get announced. 3: A logical expression of 1 and/or 2. The following operators should be defined AND OR NOT Parenthesis are used to group rules. Example: dom-in: 39.528f.1103 ANY AND NOT 39.756f Accept all announcements from EMPB BIS except for the Switzerland routing domain. 3: Community Name equivalent to [1] RDI-out: Routing domain prefixes announced to other BIS'. Analogue to the "as-out' tag in [1]. Format : <RDI> <routing policy expression > <RDI> is the routing domain prefix where the BIS you peer with belongs to. <routing policy expression > As defined with the RDI-in tag. Example: RDI-out: 39.528f.1103 39.528f.1100 AND NOT 39.528f.1100.0009.10 Advertise to Europanet the SURFnet-CLNS routing domain but not the PTT-Research routing domain. default: Indication how default routing is done default: < RDI> <cost> <RDI> again is the RDI where the the default routes are passed. <cost> indicates which default path is preferred. The lower cost gives the preffered path Example: default: 39.528f.1103 10 Default points to is routed to 39.528f.1103. This default may be passed from multiple routers. saps: Well-known transport Service Access Points (SAP)s that this node supports over CLNP. TCP, UDP, TP4, skinny stack. admin-c: Administrative contact. Format equal to admin-c in [1]. tech-c: Technical contact Format equal to tech-c in [1]. guardian: e-mail and/or postal address of domain guardian. Analogue to AS guardian in [1]. source: Source of the information. Equal to source field in [1]. remark: remarks or comments Equal to remark field in [1] changed: Who and when of last change. Equal to change field in [1]. CLNS routing-domain object Page 7 Example: _________ i-prefix: 39.528f.1103/40 prefix-name: SURFNET-C descr: SURFnet-CLNS domain country: NL admin-c: Victor Reijgs tech-c: Henk Steenman guardian: domain-guardian@surfnet. connect: RDI: RD39.528f.1100 rev-srv: changed: 2-9-94 source: RIPE i-prefix: 39.528f.1100.0009.10/64 prefix-name: PTT-1 descr: PTT CLNS domain country: NL admin-c: Victor Reijgs tech-c: Henk Steenman guardian: domain-guardian@surfnet. connect: RDI: RD39.528f.1100 rev-srv: changed: 2-9-94 source: RIPE i-net: 39.528f.1100.1000.2000.0000.0001.0000.0c04.29b4.00 i-type: bis host-name: bis.empb.surfnet.net descr: Bis that connects surfnet to EMPB cisco-4 country: NL admin-c: Victor Reijs tech-c: Henk Steenman guardian: domain-guardian(a)surfnet.nl saps: TUBA, TP4, TCP RDI: RD39.528f.110 applications: ftp, telnet, smtp rev-srv: source: RIPE changed: henk(a)sara.nl 930716 RDI-prefix: RD39.528f.1100 RDI-name SURFnet-CLNS descr: SURFnet-CLNS domain. bis: 39.528f.1100.1000.2000.0000.0001.0000.0c04.29b4.00 39.528f.1103 dom-in: 39.528f.1103 100 ANY AND NOT 39.528f.1100.0009.10 dom-in: 39.528f.1100.0009.10 100 39.528f.1100.0009.10 dom-in: AS1183 39.528f.1100 dom-out: 39.528f.1103 39.528f.1100 AND NOT 39.528f.1100.0009.10 dom-out: 39.528f.1100.0009.10 39.528f.1100 dom-out: AS1183 39.528f.1100 default: 39.528f.1103 10 admin-c: Victor Reijs tech-c: Henk Steenman guardian: domain-guardian(a)surfnet.nl source: RIPE changed: henk(a)sara.nl 930716 RDI-Prefix: RD39.528f.1103 RDI-name: EMPB descr: European Backbone (rest of entry is truncated for this example) RDI-Prefix: 39.528f.1103 RDI-name: EMPB descr: European Backbone bis: (rest of entry is truncated for this example) RDI-Prefix: RD39.528f.1100.0009.10 RDI-name: PTT-Research descr: PTT Research network (rest of entry is truncated for this example) RDI-Prefix: AS1183 RDI-name: Interconnect AS descr: Interconnect AS to US vai ANSNET i-aggr: 39.528f.1100/40 i-aggre-name: NL-SURFNET-aggr1 descr: NL SURFNET aggregate i-aggr-prefix: 39.528f.1100.03/48 i-aggr-prefix: 39.528f.1100.04/48 i-aggr-RDI: AS1183 country: NL admin-c: Victor Reijs tech-c: Henk Steenman guardian: domain-guardian(a)surfnet.nl source: RIPE changed: henk(a)sara.nl 930716 (Below text needs to be verified:) SURFnet accepts from EMPB ( 39528f1103 ) all prefixes but one, 39.528f.1100.0009.10, which is PTT-research that is connected to both EMPB and SURFnet. From PTT-research SURFnet only accepts the PTT-research prefix. SURFnet announces to EMPB, 39.528f.1100 but not 39.528f.1100.0009.10. To PTT-research only 39.528f.1100 is announced. AS1183 is to represent the AS number that this network uses. This AS number can be used if the IP and CLNP networks are the same. With in the SURFNET addresses, the aggregates 39.528f.1100.03 and 39.528f.1100.04 are aggregated to 39.528f.1100. Translated to static routing; on the SURFnet BIS connected to PTT- research, there is a static route to 39.528f.1100.0009.10. And on the SURFnet BIS connected to EMPB there is a static route to all other know prefixes. On both the PTT-reserach and EMPB BIS's connected to SURFnet there is a static route to 39.528f.1100. Alternate example with names used instead of the numerical sequences. RDI-prefix: RD39.528f.1100 RDI-name SURFnet-CLNS descr: SURFnet-CLNS domain. bis: 39.528f.1100.1000.2000.0000.0001.0000.0c04.29b4.00 EMPB dom-in: EMPB 100 ANY AND NOT PTT-1 dom-in: PTT-Research 100 PTT-1 dom-out: EMPB SURFNET-C AND NOT PTT-1 dom-out: PTT-1 SURFNET-C default: EMPB 10 admin-c: Victor Reijs tech-c: Henk Steenman guardian: domain-guardian(a)surfnet.nl source: RIPE changed: henk(a)sara.nl 930716 Registration of ISO capable Hosts: i-net: 39.528f.1100.1000.2000.0000.0001.0000.0c04.29b4.00 EMPB type: bis host-name: BIS.EMPB descr: EMPB hosts country: NL admin-c: Victor Reijs tech-c: Henk Steenman guardian: domain-guardian(a)surfnet.nl source: RIPE changed: henk(a)sara.nl 930716 Appendix A ------- Definition of NSAP structure is defined in OSI 8348 Ad2 [2]. In general: NSAP's are always an integer number of octets where the AFI is always one octet and the IDI is always an integer number of octets. NSAP's are hierarchical structured and once the AFI is decided upon, structuring of the rest of the NSAP is up to authorities down the tree. Two common AFI are 47 and 39 and can be described by some general rules. AFI: 39 Describes that the following two octets are the ISO DCC country codes. Since these codes are always described by three digits, padding with an "f" is necessary to complete the 2 octets. Further structure is done by the authority for each country and there is no general rule. AFI: 47 IDI: 4 defines OSINET. Followed by a two byte organisation identifier. IDI: 5 defines US-GOSIP Version 1 defines a two byte organisation identifier. Version 2 defines a one byte data format identifier, a two byte zero field a three byte administrative authority a two byte routing domain id. CLNS routing-domain object Page 9 References __________ [1] : RIPE-81, Representation of IP routing Policies in the RIPE database, Tony Bates, Jean-Michel Jouanigot, Daniel Karrenberg, Peter Lothberg and Marten Terpstra, Feb. 1993 [2] : OSI 8348 Ad2 Network Services Definition, Addendum 2, covering Network Layer Addressing.

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MK domain registration in the RIPE DB
by Milan Sterba 23 Mar '94

23 Mar '94

Dear colleague, I have just noticed, that MK is a coorectly registered domain in the DNS However there is no cooresponding entry in the RIPE database. Please could you update the RIPE database accordingly, it helps a lot, especially with newly connected countrie. Thanks Best regards Milan Sterba -- ====================================================================== Prague University of Economics e-mail : Milan.Sterba(a)vse.cz Computing Center tel : +42 2 24 21 79 00 nam. W. Churchilla 4 home: +42 2 823 78 59 130 67 Praha 3 fax : +42 2 24 22 42 66 Czech republic =======================================================================

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