[db-wg] New "status" tag of REVOKED requested

The following was posted to APNIC without much comment.  Since RIPErs are 
more outspoken, I'd like to raise it here as a possible idea for 
implementation.

>I am part of a volunteer team along with Barry Greene and Terry Baranski
>that contact Internet users (ISPs and corporates) when they start
>announcing something wrong on the Internet.  Recently, Geoff Huston updated
>his CIDR report - http://bgp.potaroo.net/cidr/#Bogons and up popped a
>number of APNIC customers that were announcing prefixes that were not
>allocated in APNIC.
>
>Turns out that the customers membership was "closed" and APNIC tried
>contacting them with no success.  APNIC waits about 90-120 days before
>closing a member for non-payment.  APNIC then sends an email informing the
>upstream to stop announcing the IP range that has been reclaimed from the
>closed member. Then they remove all the database objects which are related
>to this organisation from the WHOIS database.  After a one year period,
>APNIC will start to reallocate/reassign that particular IP range to other
>organisations.
>
>The problem is that the upstream or even the customer themselves continue
>to use the prefix and announce it to the Internet, thereby falling into the
>Bogon category.
>
>I think 90-120 days is too little before removing the inetnum object.  I
>also think that a better a tactic would be to add a "remarks" to the
>inetnum or perhaps create a new "status" tag such as REVOKED.  I also think
>such a policy should be uniform between RIRs.
>
>Comments?

-Hank