On 9. Juni 2014 15:53:15 MESZ, Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> wrote:
At 14:49 09/06/2014 +0200, João Damas wrote:
Dear all,
at the recent RIPE 68 meeting there was a discussion about issues 
concerning the re-issue of recovered 16-bit ASNs by the RIPE NCC and 
possible modifications to the content of routing-related attributes in

RIPE Database objects, namely the routing policy attributes of autnum
and 
as-set objects.

The observed consensus during the meeting was that:

- the RIPE NCC should not to remove references to recovered ASNs from 
import and export lines, and neither from as-set objects; routing
policies 
are the realm of the object owner and are not related to allocation
data.

On a related matter, is it possible currently to setup my aut-num that
if 
anyone adds my autnum to their import/export/as-set objects I would
receive 
a notification about it?  Currently the "notify" field only informs me
of 
changes to the specific aut-num, not people who reference my aut-num
w/o my 
permission?

If  this is not feasible with the system today, would it be possible to
add 
this feature?  I'll explain the rationale: we have
recently discovered
that 
hostile aut-num's that intend to perform a BGP hijack, will add the
victims 
aut-num to their routing policy or to their unsuspecting upstream. 
This 
policy is then picked up as legitimate and propogated.  By having a 
"notify-on-policy" email address field, I would be able to quickly see
who 
is planning on hijacking my IP ranges.

Comments?


I fully support your point. I also observed what you told here. Therefore we enhanced our Prefixlist-Generator doing counter-checks if an import statement also have a corresponding export - statement. Result is, that the prefixlist generation takes about 10 times longer, our caching database grew by factor eight (as we now also need to cache autnum objects of child- and grandchild-objects) ...  

So a "notify-on-policy" - how you called it - would be very appreciated! 

BR Jens 
Thanks,
Hank





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