Dear all,

No objection from my side. I personally think Denis’ proposal is a
reasonable progression aligned with the original intent of NWI-5.

As Maurice Moss (IT Crowd) famously said: “I’ll just put this over here
with the rest of the fire” [1]

Kind regards,

Job

[1]:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ill-just-put-this-over-here-with-the-rest-of-the-fire

On Wed, 14 Dec 2022 at 15:14, denis walker via db-wg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Colleagues
>
> Just a quick reminder in case you missed the previous email. Looks
> like no one has any objections...
>
> cheers
> denis
> co-chair DB-WG
>
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 at 16:43, denis walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Colleagues
> >
> > There is some support for the idea that if AUT-NUM objects in
> > RIPE-NONAUTH authorise the creation of AS-SET objects, these set
> > objects will also be in RIPE-NONAUTH. There is also support for this
> > to be considered as a bug from the implementation of 'NWI-5 Out of
> > region ROUTE(6)/AUT-NUM objects'. So existing AS-SET objects whose
> > creation was authorised by one of these RIPE-NONAUTH ASNs can be moved
> > to RIPE-NONAUTH as part of a bug fix.
> >
> > Does anyone have any objections to such a 'bug fix'?
> >
> > cheers
> > denis
> > co-chair DB-WG
> >
> > On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 19:34, Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Cynthia Revström wrote on 30/11/2022 22:59:
> > > > I am not sure if this feature is used or not however I think this is
> a
> > > > very good reason to not go forward with a clean-up (at least until we
> > > > have properly evaluated things).
> > > > We will probably have to figure out some other way to deal with
> > > > objects that are currently causing issues I think.
> > >
> > > the "feature" is used, yes.  Some providers have customers in different
> > > RIR service regions.  Some organisations have address space registered
> > > in different RIR service regions. It's impossible to avoid in many
> > > situations.
> > >
> > > What's important right now is to close off the option to create new
> > > unqualified as-set names, and to move the existing qualified non-RIPE
> > > ASxxxx:as-set objects from source: RIPE to source: RIPE-NONAUTH.
> > >
> > > Denis was correct that this was a bug during the implementation of
> NWI-5
> > > (not ripe-731 which I mistakenly quoted).
> > >
> > > After that, we can afford to spend a bit of time looking at potential
> > > clean-up options.  There are 1590 empty as-set objects.  700 of these
> > > haven't been updated in the last 5 years, and some going back 20 years.
> > >
> > > I wouldn't lose too much sleep about deleting empty as-sets.  Contact
> > > people, set a timeout, and then delete.  Worst case, people can
> > > reference new, qualified as-sets.
> > >
> > > Nick
> > >
>
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