[db-wg] Bogon cleanup -- Current anomalies

In message <CAKw1M3PPUM4qdwCOLgiY=GkuiNtKnM4S5UmrOzRphZOC3_QsTg at mail.gmail.com>, 
=?UTF-8?Q?Cynthia_Revstr=C3=B6m?= <me at cynthia.re> wrote:

>Are there any route objects that would be impacted by this change outside
>of 192.88.99.0/24?

Just 192.31.196.0/24, I think, based on my results so far.

>If the answer is no, then I would suggest that all non-globally reachable
>prefixes listed in the special-purpose registry be added to the bogon
>cleanup.

I agree.  This is -not- actually an issue at the moment... except for
the very unusual cases of 192.88.99.0/24 and 192.31.196.0/24... but
I suspect that everyone would agree that *if* there existed a route
object in the data bases for, say, 127.0.0.0/8, most people would
probably like to see that go away.  So the default should be that
any routes that exist to IANA-reserved IP blocks should get cleaned
up along with the rest.

>P.S. Ronald, you probably want to at least exclude this from your script
>"192.31.196.0/24 112 2018-09-04". :)

Yes, well, I did just notice that additional oddity yesterday, and I'm
frankly a bit concerned about how this one will be handled.

I mean I've skimmed the relevant RFCs (RFC 7534, RFC 7535) and it is
quite clearly a Good Thing that someone is sinking this inappropriate
and pointless DNS traffic, but as far as having a route object for
this in the RIPE NONAUTH data base?  Well, I'm not so sure about that.
What happens when the RIPE NONAUTH data base goes away entirely one
day?  Will this whole "AS112 Project" start to malfunction horribly?

All things considered, I think it would be best if some helpful RIR
effectively "claimed" the 192.31.196.0/24 block, started putting the
block into that RIR's daily stats file, and if the route object
pertaining to it were moved to a stable and permament home in that
RIR's AUTH data base.

Until these steps or some other appropriate solution is implemented
I think it will be best if my scripts keep on reporting this one as
an open issue.


Regards,
rfg