Registry Working Group

[Bill Owens <>]

Replying to your original email to make things simpler but acknowledging it 
was your reminder just now that got me to do it...

> On 12/14/18, 3:34 PM, 
"
 on behalf of Michael H Lambert" 
<
 on behalf of 
>
 wrote:
> 
>     All,
>     
>     In a fit of non-lucidity I told Dale I would be willing to chair the 
> IRR working group.  I've been remiss in sending out an initial message, but 
> here goes.
>     
>     I'll throw out some discussion points for possible directions for the 
> group.  I figure we can schedule a call for sometime in early January to 
> provide some focus to what I'm sure will show up on > this list.  I expect 
> a lot of this to mesh nicely with points on Grover's agenda for the Global 
> Summit MANRS workshop. 
>     
>     o Motivation for using IRR.  Potential loss of peering with Google and 
> Cloudflare is significant, but that isn't the only reason.
    
Honestly, for me the threat of losing connections to Google *is* the only 
reason. I didn't know Cloudflare was potentially in the mix as well, but 
they're important too. I've managed to survive this long without any serious 
use of IRR and I don't see any advantages to it; the records I have are 
because they're what my ISPs require me to have. I make no use of them.

>     o How-Tos for various aspects of IRR.  Working with registries, tools, 
> etc.
    
YES. I don't know what I'm doing with IRR, and the documentation I've found 
is all about how it could be used, not how it is used. I want the absolute 
minimum configuration that will let me keep Google/Cloudflare/whoever happy. 
If there's additional configuration that keeps us in good standing with the 
MANRS world, that's fine too. 

>     o Perhaps this would culminate with a white paper on best practices.
>     
>     Is concluding the group by the end of June realistic?  It's not 
> supposed to be long-lived.
    
I just looked at the Google peering portal and don't see anything about IRR, 
or any complaints about my lack of a coherent IRR configuration. Apparently 
the January 1 deadline, wasn't. I'm glad, since doing actual work on the 
network has been keeping us plenty busy without adding make-work, but I do 
wonder that we haven't heard anything more from Google about this.

Bill.