Re: preventing future situations like panix

To what extent does the route object validation in the RIPE database (for routes covering RIPE-allocated space), together with maintainer object authentication, provide a "perfect IRR", according to your research?

(I realise the step from "useful, authenticated source of data" to "universally-deployed import filters" is non-trivial.)

My understanding is that RIPE, while quite good, still contains a significant amount of old data that needs to be regularly flushed. It certainly seems reasonable to use its information as a good first approximation of the validity of a route, and I think that would go quite well with our recommendation, reducing the number of routes flagged as suspicious.