[db-wg] [routing-wg] Last Call - creation of new out of region ROUTE(6) objects

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