[routing-wg] Who uses the RIPE IRR and for what?

In message <20141121090850.GP28745 at Space.Net>, 
Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:

>To state something that might be obvious or not - for the same prefix,
>you can have multiple route: entries with different origin ASes...

Yes.  Thank you.  So I have now been informed.

I do confess, freely, that I had not considered or anticipated such a
possibility at all when I performed my simple minded analysis, and
also must admit that had the small script I write to perform this
analysis properly taken into account the meaning of such cases, the
number I reported would have been different, probably with a lower
number of "anomalies" (although, I suspect, not too much lower).

Regarding the _use_ of the RIPE data base odf route objects, you wrote:

>We use it to build BGP filters for BGP customers.
>...
>(Our upstream providers do the same thing for us, so it's used on a larger
>scale...

It is, at once, both comforting to know that some folks, at least, are
indeed making use of this data (RIPE IRR) to try to prevent bogus route
announcements from leaking out, but also a bit worrying that the data
seems to contain so many anomalies.


Regards,
rfg