On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Job Snijders via NANOG wrote:
I think all of us recognize a need to declaw "third party" IRR databases like RADB and ALTDB ("declawing" meaning that it is not desirable that anyone can just register *anything*); on the other hand our community also has to be cognizant about there being parts of the Internet which are not squatting on anyone's numbers *and* also are not contracted to a specific RIR.
As one datapoint, two tiny /24's I (not-dayjob) originate are legacy resources. They cannot be added to either RPKI or the ARIN IRR objects without endeavoring to spend an at-least-this-much-money-price-will-only-go-up-over-time amount. Ironically, to find the way forward, ARIN would require incorporation, the signing of a RSA, and Moar Money for this same organization to have similar v6 blocks, in order to eventually retire these v4 resources. IRRExplorer presently flags these with a warning "expected object in ARIN db" because there's no programmatic way (via either WHOIS or IRR) to detect a legacy resource that I can find. This is an edge case which will only diminish over time, but it does exist. -Dan -- --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC FB: fb.com/DanielMahoneyIV LI: linkedin.com/in/gushi Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------