Gert Doering <gert@space.net> schrieb: Hi, On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 06:40:21PM +0200, Opteamax GmbH - RIPE-Team wrote: Actually I don't really understand the problem. If the ASN is back in the pool, this reads for me "it shall no longer appear in the routing table". This includes for me that any object referencing this ASN is illegal by definition. So these illegal objects may not exist and *must* be removed asap from the DB. After removing all illegal objects, they should stay in some "grace-period" - let's say 3 month - and then there should be no problem reallocating the asn. The database currently has no mechanics to prevent someone from entering an import/export line that says: aut-num: AS100000 remarks: have fun with Jens export: to AS5539 announce AS48200 Got the point, thanks for making it clearer to me (and maybe some others) So this might also be a task for the database working group then ;) Jens