Hello Denis, On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 00:03 +0000, Job Snijders wrote: > I don't think there is a good case to continue to allow the creation of > new ROUTE(6) objects in the RIPE DB for non RIPE address space. > > I'm seeing quite some abuse of this 'feature', where spammers/hijackers > register out-of-region prefixes to sneak them into people's prefix-list > filters. It would be good if that hole can be plugged. > > Separately, a study should be done on how to deal with the existing > non-RIPE-managed ROUTE(6) objects in the DB. Maybe some cleanup can be > done for at least for a subset of those objects.
I fully agree with Job's position regarding the foreign route(6) objects. I think that we should also do a cleanup the existing objects too. Kind regards, -- Clément Cavadore
