I know my employer uses the rr.ntt.net instance on a daily basis. yes, i built that and heas has done cool stuff. does your employer register in ARIN or APNIC irr? < light goes on?> We encourage anyone to register their routes in the appropiate IRR, especially when that IRR offers strong guarantees about the authenticity of the route-object.
does ntt register its own routes in the irrs of APNIC, ARIN, etc? that is a binary question.
I'll take your ad-hominem-employer argument
exuse me! you brought up your employer, not i. and you have not answered my question.
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. randy