[routing-wg] [db-wg-chairs] ASN reference cleanup

Hi Aftab,

Aftab Siddiqui wrote:

> Hi Denis,
> Just for my understanding. For such clean-ups is there any need to have a
> policy to remove certain object references or this comes under RIR
> housekeeping can be done once problem has been identified by the community
> consensus.

my point of view as a DB-Co-chair (at the moment) is that we don't need a
formal policy, if the problem is well understood, we do have a sound proposal
how to move forward and there is no severe impact on daily operations for the
users of the DB services; (and no substantial disagreement).

In case we hit a roadblock and find out that the/a proposed solution/s would
require major changes for the resource holders, or the managment of number
resources in our region, then for all means, we would use the formal PDP, imho.

> Regards,
> 
> Aftab A. Siddiqui

Best reegards,
Wilfried.

> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Denis Walker <denis at ripe.net> wrote:
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>> Hi all
>>
>>In the DB WG session this afternoon we only touch on the fact that this
>>project is ongoing. I go into more details on the problems we have with
>>this project with my short presentation in the Routing WG tomorrow.
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>>Regards
>>denis
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>> On 14/05/2014 10:28, Rob Evans wrote:
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>>Folks,
>>
>>For any RPSL lovers among you that weren't at the Address Policy WG meeting
>>this morning, the topic of cleaning up referenced AS numbers came up again.
>>There are about ~2,000 16 bits ASNs that have been returned, but are still
>>referenced in the import/export lines of other aut-num objects, either
>>directly or via as-sets.
>>
>>There will be more discussion of this in the Database WG this afternoon, but
>>I thought I'd mention it here as it has implications for those on this list
>>that use RPSL.
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>>Cheers,
>>Rob
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