[ixpmanager] Customer Administrator IRR Information updates

[Barry O'Donovan]

Hi Jay,

Jay Hanke wrote on 10/08/2020 16:08:
> Is it possible to allow Customer Administrators to update their IRR
> information?
> 
> It looks like they are unable to edit anything on the overview tab.

More generally, our plan this year is to enable more features in the 
member area.

On IRR information - the IRR detail is used to generate route server 
prefix lists. This uses the AS set / macro and the AS number.

I know we won't enable the ability for end users to change the ASN as 
this is a key piece of data for a member. Part of provisioning a member 
is ensuring they have ownership of the ASN for example. Changing it 
creates a knock on effect to route collector / server configuration 
generation and so forth. Changing it is something that needs to be 
managed carefully by the IX.

I haven't considered enabling an end user to change the AS set / macro 
before. We'd need to think this through. Having it changed after 
provisioning is probably something that happens 1 - 2 times a year for 
the ~100 members at INEX. I think the ability and responsibility of the 
IX operator to review and vet those changes outweigh the convenience of 
enabling the end user to change it. That's my initial reaction.

Now - apologies if what you meant by this question was add / edit / 
delete prefixes in IXP Managers IRRDB prefix list for a member. If 
that's what you meant then the answer is no. The way for a member to 
effect their IRRDB entries in IXP manager is to properly publish their 
intended peering routes using the appropriate IRRDB along with the 
correct use of AS sets / macros. Or (better) set up their RPKI policy 
for prefixes as the RPKI validation kicks in before the prefix list 
validation.

Lastly, if you meant to allow customers to manually kick off a refresh 
of the IRRDB information then that's already in place.

Hope that helps and please do let me know if I missed the point here 
entirely!

  - Barry