I understand a number of ISPs in NZ would be interested in using a route policy database to allow communication of this information and, in particular, to enable automated maintenance of filters to control route policies. Recently we have had a Computer Science student run an informal survey of some ISPs on this issue and again there was an interested response from most; he has also been revisiting the situation in respect to running a database using the "Route Arbiter" code. I didn't get to the NZNOG meeting (perhaps this was discussed there), but could "NZNOG" consider this question and perhaps encourage the application of such coordinated controls on route information? In principle I believe the IRR could be used for such a purpose, and it may be good practise to load AS/route object information in there in any case (it is especially important for multi-homed networks), but maybe there should be a NZ based service for NZ information. Thoughts? John --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog