[DBWG] RIPE proposed changes to the routing registry

Daniel Shaw daniel at afrinic.net
Thu May 17 09:05:28 UTC 2018


On 17/05/2018, 12:25, Job Snijders	typed:
> 
> 
> I work for a fairly large network.
> 
> There is no issue, and there are TONS of databases that do not
> check the ASN in the "origin:" attribute. So RIPE is hardly the first to
> drop this requirement.
> 
> The origin-check does NOT exist in at least the following IRR databases:
> ALTDB, APNIC, ARIN IRR, ARIN WHOIS, BBOI, BELL, LEVEL3, RADB, RGNET,
> NTTCOM, and TC (probably more DBs too).
> 
> A second thought is that in the RPKI, when an end user produces a ROA -
> they do not need permission or involvement from the ASN owner. In a RPKI
> ROA the prefix owner can permit any ASN as the Origin ASN! With IRR
> route objects we should not complicate matters.


Thank you!





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