Re: 2749 routes AT RISK - Re: TIMELY/IMPORTANT - Approximately 40 hours until potentially significant routing changes (re: Retirement of ARIN Non-Authenticated IRR scheduled for 4 April 2022)

[Aftab Siddiqui <aftab.siddiqui () gmail com>]

> 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 :(