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<div>Colleagues</div><div><br></div><div>We have had a suggestion (with some support) on the DB-WG mailing list about deprecating the "holes:" attribute in ROUTE(6) objects. Perhaps the Routing WG could consider if this attribute has any value in the RIPE Database.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div>denis</div><div><br></div><div>co-chair DB-WG</div><div><br></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> Nick Hilliard via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net></div><div><b>To:</b> Edward Shryane <eshryane@ripe.net></div><div><b>Cc:</b> "db-wg@ripe.net" <db-wg@ripe.net></div><div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 13:30:30 CEST</div><div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [db-wg] Suggestion further validity-checking</div><div><br></div>
<div><div dir="ltr">Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 28/05/2019 12:12:<div class="ydp971ae400yqt0098475553" id="ydp971ae400yqtfd45150"><br clear="none">> Unfortunately, no cleanup was done when this rule was implemented,<br clear="none">> but in recent times we try to do this. I will also contact the<br clear="none">> maintainers of these route objects and ask them to fix the holes<br clear="none">> attribute(s).</div><br clear="none">I wonder if this key should be formally deprecated. It's used for 643 <br clear="none">out of 302354 route: objects and 40 out of 28803 route6: objects, i.e. <br clear="none">~0.2% and 0.1% respectively. The complexity associated with handling it <br clear="none">is substantial and most tools simply ignore it.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Nick<div class="ydp971ae400yqt0098475553" id="ydp971ae400yqtfd85611"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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