[175778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is it unusual to remove defunct rr objects?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Howe)
Sat Nov 1 12:57:36 2014
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Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 09:57:55 -0700
From: Tim Howe <tim.h@bendtel.com>
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:51:59 -0500
Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
> [snip]
> > People tend to treat things like IRR (eg: RADB, etc) as a
> > garbage pit you toss things into and never remove from.
>
> So who do we ask about making IRRs expire defunct objects and/or
> changing their system design to ensure that the legitimate resource holder
> can remove references to their prefix from ASes they no longer
> authorize to carry them,
>
> without requiring all sorts of assistance, cooperation, and
> willingness from the AS maintainer? :)
I have been asking the folks who manage the maintnr object
in question. I have so far been mostly successful. I spend varying
amounts of time explaining myself... /Sometimes/ simply pasting the
object in an email to the right person is all that is needed.
--TimH
