On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:36 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
P.S. Over on some of the RIPE mailing lists, they've recently been discussing whether or not to continue allowing Joe Random Criminal to create totally unauthorized and totally unchecked/unverified (and typically bogus) route objects in the RIPE data base for so-called "out of region" IP address block resources. Of course, if anybody had any brains or any backbone over on that side of the pond, they would have done this already ten years ago. But such is the pace of change in the Old World, where even the most obvious things can't be implemented until everybody and his brother agrees, including even the stupid kid.
There are/were providers which required RIPE-IRR registration to accept routes, I don't know that this is still the case, but it might account for unwillingness to remove 'out of region' content. As well, there are folk with space from more than just one RIR, who may have chosen (for a myriad of resaons) to centralize their IRR content on a single IRR. Sometimes your message is lost in the emotive editorializing :(