Re: [db-wg] Foreign ROUTE objects in RIPE Database - final decision?

[Nick Hilliard via db-wg]

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Sascha Luck [ml] via db-wg wrote:
> Not allowing
> "foreign" resources in the ripedb denies the reality that there
> will always be RIPE-allocated prefixes originated from
> non-RIPE-assigned ASNs and vice versa.

Not true - you can easily run a whois query on whois.radb.net specifying
multiple sources, including RIPE:

% bgpq3 -S RIPE,APNIC,LACNIC AS-FOO

In fact, there is no way of writing a functioning irrdb querier which
can't handle specifying arbitrary irrdb source: options on a per-ASN basis.

Nick

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