[db-wg] NWI-3 - AFRINIC IRR Homing

support for both the positive (should appear in the Afrinic IRR) and the negative (not in the RIPE DB) statements in that text

Joao

> On 25 May 2016, at 15:11, Job Snijders <job at instituut.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear Working Group,
> 
> (You can review https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2016-April/005190.html 
> to ensure you have an overview of the next steps.)
> 
> NWI-3 - Afrinic IRR Homing
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> 
>    In recent years Afrinic set up an IRR instance that enforces
>    authorisation for ROUTE(6) objects at rr.afrinic.net
> 
>    And while the general problem of out-of-region ROUTE(6) and AUT-NUM
>    objects in the RIPE Database IRR, and the problem where the prefix
>    and the ASN belong to different regions is not trivial to resolve,
>    there seems to be a general consensus that simple cases where
>    ROUTE(6) objects have both an ASN and prefix in Afrinic (~34k
>    objects), should appear in the Afrinic IRR where authorisation can
>    be done and not in the RIPE DB.
> 
>    Complicated cases where the prefix is in Afrinic, but the ASN is
>    another region -or- where the ASN in Afrinic, but the prefix is out
>    of region are out of scope for this NWI.
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> 
> Some of you might wonder why this topic is back on the table. The chairs
> felt that it would be most appropiate to follow our new NWI formal
> process to help progress this work.
> 
> Working group participants, if you agree/disagree with the above problem
> statement please voice your opinion. If you have suggestions to refine
> the text that is welcome too. 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Job
>