[6bone] 6bone pTLA 3FFE:401C::/32 allocated to T-NET

[David Kessens]

Jeroen,

At 01:56 AM 11/25/2003 +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>
> If wanted, I could do some cleaning in the 6bone database. The plan
> for doing it and the tools are near-ready. If this is wanted, please
> give a notice and I'll start working on it. Would be a good thing to
> have a clean 6bone database, which then at least would show people
> that it is being looked after.

I personally think that it is not worth the effort. The best way to
encourage people to use the registry is to make it easy for people to
register. This same requirement also causes it to make it easy for
people to register garbage. If you don't register a proper mail
address, people won't be able to reach you when you have a problem. If
people choose not to register, so be it - it's really their own
problem not mine. In addition, I have plenty of disk space so I really
don't mind carrying some old stale data. Also, sometimes it is still
better to find stale information than nothing at all, you can always
do a google search or whatever and there is a good chance you will be
able to find the person. The Internet is a cooperative thing and there
is no Internet police who can chase down the bad guys. We can only do
this ourselves by putting filters in our routers and refusing to peer
with phony businesses. The registry is of very little help here, one
can easily hijack address space without registering it anywhere. In
fact, I rather have those people register since you can at least send
them a mail.

I think that cleaning the data might be esthetically nice but it just
doesn't change anything in the network and isn't that helpful for the
rfc following crowd either. However, if you really want to spend time
on this, feel free to propose a well thought out plan to the list and
ask whether people think this is a good idea and I am more than happy
to give you the right kind of access in order to help you.

David K.
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