Anyone can very quickly put just about anything in RADB if they want to. It’s also relatively easy to put nearly anything in the current ARIN IRR (not to be confused with the ARIN RIR database). There are also some other IRRs that accept almost anything at face value. Finally, route object based filters tend to get updated rather slowly and not everyone updates in sync, so it’s a gradually progressing outage that allows some reaction time before becoming completely catastrophic.
This proposal literally moves the routing police role from the hands of those who run routers into the hands of the RIRs (well, specifically it moves part of that role in one region into the hands of one RIR). Owen
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