here's as far we have got.

	I think you should have something between RIPE and Gilles'proposals:
The component syntax should only include the originator's AS and
(of course) the IP address:

component: <ip adress> <AS>|HOLE

	If someone wants to add a community or whatever he should create
a route object and add the community in this object.
As for the 'routed or not routed' thread, i cannot figure out an example
where the route is routed and the components are not (except the holes :-)
Does 'routed' means "announced with a E/BGP by someone" or
"present in some configuration file" or "connected to the Internet"?
It is kind of a pointless discussion IMHO.

		Laurent

> >I agree with you in some sense that this would be easier to read.
> >However, as soon as you do this, you basically imply that you are
> >inserting host routes, which you do not do. How do I distinguish a
> >"route" object that is routed, from one that is not? That is very
> >confusing. The whole idea about the component is to show parts of a
> >route that have different information but are not routed as such.
> 
> Clear there is no way to distinguish a route that is routed from
> one that is not routed. But It must also be clear that we are
> going to leave in a world with route declared and not announced
> (that is already the case in the NSFnet database because you
> do not destroy the subset at the same time that you create the
> superset).
> 
> So if you want to clearly distinguish between was is routed and
> what is not why not creating an object that can be called "fortools"
> for example and with the same philosophy of a route except that
> this fortools will never be introduced in the routing mesh.
> 
> Because you propose to have a very complicated guardians 
> 
> mechanism just for tools.
> 
> Gilles
> 


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