Internet Engineering Task Force Internet-draft Distributed Routing Policy System

The RIPE database specifications and RPSL language define languages used as the basis for representing information in a routing policy system. A repository for routing policy system information is known as a routing registry. A routing registry provides a means of exINTERNET-DRAFT Distributed Routing Policy System June 24, 1999 changing information needed to address many issues on importance to the operation of the Internet. The implementation and deployment of a routing policy system must maintain some degree of integrity to be of any use. The Routing Policy System Security internet-draft addresses the need to assure integrity of the data by proposing an authentication and authorization model. This document addresses the need to distribute data over multiple repositories and delegate authority for data subsets to multiple repositories without compromising the authorization model established in Routing Policy System Security internet-draft.