None at all that I have ever come across. Support depreciation. Cheers, Ben Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: routing-wg <routing-wg-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of ripedenis--- via routing-wg <routing-wg@ripe.net> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 3:13:03 PM To: RIPE Routing Working Group Subject: [routing-wg] Fw: [db-wg] Suggestion further validity-checking 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. cheers denis 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 CEST Subject: 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