[db-wg] Further cleanup (was: RIPE NONAUTH route(6) objects

Job Snijders <job at sobornost.net> wrote:

>Should the database server software impose brittle restrictions
>on that field? No, not worth the headache.

I never suggested any changes to the data base software.

I have merely suggested that *existing* route objects that make
reference to bogon ASNs should be deleted from the data base, just
as is already and currently being done in the case of those route
objects that make reference to bogon IP space.

The overwhelming majority of these "bogon-ASN" route objects are
quite obviously leftovers that just never got cleaned up... some
having languished unattended in the data base for as much as 20 years
or more (and even some of the people who put those there originally
are no doubt dead by now).

We are in agreement in our (idealistic?) hops that someday RPKI will
make all of these issues moot.  By for today, there is no good reason
not to remove the decades long accumulation of rust.  It isn't doing 
anybody any good, and I fear it is an active enticement to mischief
makers, of which the Internet has an over-supply these days.


Regards,
rfg