Colleagues We have had a suggestion (with some support) on the DB-WG mailing list about deprecating the "holes:" attribute in ROUTE(6) objects. Perhaps the Routing WG could consider if this attribute has any value in the RIPE Database. cheersdenis co-chair DB-WG ----- Forwarded message ----- From: Nick Hilliard via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net>To: Edward Shryane <eshryane@ripe.net>Cc: "db-wg@ripe.net" <db-wg@ripe.net>Sent: Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 13:30:30 CESTSubject: Re: [db-wg] Suggestion further validity-checking Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 28/05/2019 12:12:
Unfortunately, no cleanup was done when this rule was implemented, but in recent times we try to do this. I will also contact the maintainers of these route objects and ask them to fix the holes attribute(s). I wonder if this key should be formally deprecated. It's used for 643 out of 302354 route: objects and 40 out of 28803 route6: objects, i.e. ~0.2% and 0.1% respectively. The complexity associated with handling it is substantial and most tools simply ignore it.
Nick