Re: [OPSAWG] Finding and Using Geofeed Data

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Joe Clarke \(jclarke\) <jclarke=[e-mail]> wrote:
    > One thing that did stick out to me, though (and I don’t know how to
    > solve it) is when you talk about update frequency in section 5.  Okay,
    > don’t do frequent polls and don’t poll at midnight.  However, in the
    > case of something like the IETF conference network, how would consumers
    > know that this GeoFeed data _is_ likely to change and at a certain
    > periodicity?  The GeoFeed format doesn’t have any parsable way to
    > reflect that.  I don’t know if RPSL does.  Perhaps the remark: could
    > offer some clue as to when one might want to come and retaste?

Yes, I got the impression that Randy doesn't want to fix the geofeed specification.
If one were to do that, then a TTL on each line, or a notAfter date would work.

The problem with the IETF/etc. conference network isn't that we don't update
things, but that caches don't expire sanely.

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