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)

Mon Apr 4 23:04:07 UTC 2022

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.

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.

Nick