[db-wg] Foreign ROUTE objects in RIPE Database - final decision?

On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 09:53:35PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>Sascha Luck [ml] via db-wg wrote:
>> Not allowing
>> "foreign" resources in the ripedb denies the reality that there
>> will always be RIPE-allocated prefixes originated from
>> non-RIPE-assigned ASNs and vice versa.
>
>Not true - you can easily run a whois query on whois.radb.net specifying
>multiple sources, including RIPE:

How does this fact falsify the fact that cross-RIR route: objects
exist? Those have to be in *some* irrdb and as long as a
cross-RIR irrdb doesn't exist, part of the data will be
non-authenticated...

cheers,
Sascha Luck

>
>% bgpq3 -S RIPE,APNIC,LACNIC AS-FOO
>
>In fact, there is no way of writing a functioning irrdb querier which
>can't handle specifying arbitrary irrdb source: options on a per-ASN basis.
>
>Nick