> Kenneth Finnegan wrote on 04/04/2022 21:05: > > I've taken it upon myself to create > > proxy registrations for all of these prefixes in ALTDB. > > Please don't. >
Too late, all 394 routes mentioned above are now in ALTDB. > You're not doing the routing security ecosystem any favours by doing > this. Couple of reasons why: 1. this isn't your data and this is an > unexpected action on the part of the registrants, 2. this is a sure-fire > way of accumulating even more cruft in ALTDB in a way which is > troublesome to clean up afterwards, 3. there are several thousand > objects in there which are already marked as proxy registrations, and > are already likely to be inaccurate, 4. you're losing authentication > information for people to self-manage their registrations, and 5. you > have likely not cross-checked this data against RIR transfers / > de-registrations - it's not really possible to do with with the > arin-nonauth db because that db doesn't include the last-modified > timestamp, and the changed: attribute is unreliable. > Can't express it any better than this :(
