[address-policy-wg] Guidance Requested: Reassigning Referenced ASNs

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:55:44PM +0200, Elvis Velea <elvis at velea.eu> wrote:
>
> As far as I know, an AS Number can not be returned to the free
> pool/deleted from the RIPE Database unless all referencing route
> objects have been deleted. Any route object referencing a deleted AS
> Number is a broken object and should be deleted.
>
> Therefore, the discussion here is not about references of returned
> AS Numbers in route objects but more about references in other types
> of objects (see below).

Thanks for helping bring some clarity to this thread.

> I think that publishing a list of referenced AS Numbers would be a
> good first step in the clean-up. This way, any "concerned netcitizen
> could parse the list and fix their records".

Great idea. +1

  C.
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