<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Cynthia,<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Jun 2021, at 15:00, Cynthia Revström <<a href="mailto:me@cynthia.re" class="">me@cynthia.re</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Ed,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for implementing this :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks for your feedback.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">I mainly wanted to give my initial take on the AS origin status part which is in short: I don't think we should clean up based on origin AS.</div><div class="">This is as you do not need any technical authorization from the AS holder to create a route(6) object.</div><div class="">Additionally, I don't think this is validated in RIPE AUTH, but I could be wrong on that part.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I might have a different opinion if it is a huge amount of objects that could be cleaned up or if it is such a tiny amount that maybe just contacting the maintainers manually would be enough.</div><div class="">Summary: I don't think it is a good idea unless it is either a very large amount of objects, a very trivial task, or there is another good reason to do so.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Cynthia</div></div><br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I found 1,577 route objects (out of 55,960) and 43 route6 objects (out of 1,522) in the RIPE-NONAUTH database which reference an unregistered AS number (i.e. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class="">"available" or "reserved" in any RIRs delegated stats).</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class="">Of these, there are 169 distinct unregistered AS numbers referenced by route(6) objects in RIPE-NONAUTH.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class="">As we don't validate the origin AS number in the RIPE database </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class="">(apart from excluding bogon space according to: </span><font color="#333333" face="Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, Courier New, monospace" size="4" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="http://www.team-cymru.com/bogon-reference.html" class="">http://www.team-cymru.com/bogon-reference.html</a>)</span></font><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class="">, I also checked route(6) objects there.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class="">I found 72 routes and 20 route6 objects in the RIPE database which reference an unregistered AS number (41 distinct AS numbers).</span></div><div><br class=""></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class="">Regards</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class="">Ed Shryane</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class="">RIPE NCC</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>