[ARIN-consult] Community Consultation on IRR Route Validation

[Owen DeLong]

> On Mar 18, 2015, at 06:07 , John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 18, 2015, at 8:59 AM, David Huberman <David.Huberman at microsoft.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I believe ARIN should not spend any money on further development of the IRR
>> until there is a loud noise from the operational community to do so.
> 
> Agreed, but note that the consultation is specifically to determine if there 
> is such interest in further development.
> 
>> The RPKI efforts cost ARIN a lot of member money, and the benefits the operational community are receiving from all that work are neglible if not near zero. 
> 
> The consultation is with regarding ARIN's IRR services, and does not relate to 
> our RPKI efforts in any manner.  If you have a viewpoint regarding whether ARIN 
> should further develop IRR services per the consultation, please make it known.

It doesn’t relate as a service, but it directly relates as an example of something lots of people said they wanted, followed by hardly anyone actually using it once it was deployed.

Owen