Database - Side Room (Thu, 09:00)

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This working group structures smaller changes to the RIPE database into numbered work items. This talk serves as a brief update on what has happened since the last RIPE meeting.

Operational Update from the RIPE NCC Database team

Near Real Time Mirroring (NRTM) v3 has been the standard for IRR database mirroring for decades, but it has significant problems: no integrity verification, poor scalability, no formal specification, and reliability issues that are hard to diagnose. It can break in fascinating yet invisible ways, allowing mirrors to silently run out of sync.

NRTMv4 is its replacement. It uses HTTPS transport, detects and recovers from synchronization issues, uses cryptographic signing to guarantee integrity, an…

• Closing
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