[db-wg] Reverse aut-num queries in the database

David Freedman wrote:

> After the feedback from the DB-WG Meeting in Vienna last week, I'd like
> to bring this back to the list.
> 
> I'd been trying to clean up an Aut-Num to return it to the NCC. I wanted
> to know if there was a way of undertaking an inverse search against the
> RPSL policies of my peers' Aut-Num objects to ensure they could remove all
> references to be before handing the resource back.

So - do I understand this correctly, you would like to have a query that
lists all route[6]: objects with a particular origin: AS number in it?

Or do you think about the Routing Policy analysis, e.g. the use of a particular
AS number in a "macro"?

> I'm currently doing this with a free-text search, since the database doesn't hold references to the tokens in the RPSL policy (or does it?)
> 
> Any better ideas?
> 
> Dave.

Sorry for not responding to this message for so long. Blush :-(
Wilfried