Glossary
Table of contents
IRR
- The Internet Routing Registry (IRR) is a distributed routing database development effort.
- Data from the Internet Routing Registry may be used by anyone worldwide to help debug, configure, and engineer Internet routing and addressing.
- The IRR provides a mechanism for validating the contents of BGP announcement messages or mapping an origin AS number to a list of networks.
- The IRR emerged early in 1995, a time when providers worldwide were preparing for the end of the NSFNET Backbone Service and the birth of the commercial Internet.
RADb is an IRR, similar to RIPE and LEVEL3.
Helpful Links
- IRR.net Website - https://www.irr.net/docs/overview.html
IRRd
IRRd is the database software that runs the RADb.
- Helpful Links
- IRRd Github Repository - https://github.com/irrdnet/irrd
Maintainer
A maintainer is an account in RADb. The customer "maintains" the objects stored with it.
Maintainer ID
- A maintainer ID is like the account number for a maintainer.
- Typical maintainers are formatted as MAINT-ASXXXX, with the organization's AS number at the end of the ID.
- A maintainer can have a "vanity" maintainer ID, like MAINT-CISCO or MAINT-IBM.
RIR
- A regional Internet registry (RIR) is an organization that manages the allocation and registration of Internet number resources within a region of the world.
Internet number resources include IP addresses and autonomous system (AS) numbers.
Helpful Links
- Regional Internet Registry (Wikipedia) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Internet_registry
RPSL
- Stands for Routing Policy Specification Language.
- RPSL allows a network operator to be able to specify routing policies at various levels in the Internet hierarchy
RPSL is the language of RADb as well as other IRRs.
Helpful Links
- Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) RFC 2622 - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2622/
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