What are a route and a route(6) objects?

Route objects contain routing information associated with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. They are used to specify the networks originated by an Autonomous System. The route attribute is used for IPv4 addresses, while route6 is used for IPv6 addresses.

In LACNIC's IRR, routes6 objects are generated by creating RPKI ROAs and they are modified and deleted by modifying or deleting the ROAs. From the point of view of the objects in RPSL, it is possible to edit route(6) information directly.

The object's attributes are described below:

• route: The route attribute is the address prefix of the route.
• descr: The value of the descr attribute is a short description of the maintaining entity. In LACNIC's IRR, the default value is the name of the organization.
• origin: The origin attribute is the AS Number of the Autonomous System that originates the route into the interAS routing system.
• remarks: A comment or an explanation related to this object.
• mnt-by: The value of this attribute represents the maintainer of the object.
• changed: This attribute shows the email address of the person who modified the object for the last time and the date of the modification. The attribute has the following syntax:

changed: <email-address> <YYYYMMDD>

For example: changed: [e-mail] 19900401

• source: This attribute specifies the registry where the object is registered.

Example of a route object:

route: 179.0.156.0/22
descr: LACNIC generated route for LACNIC - Latin American and Caribbean IP address
origin: AS28000
remarks: LACNIC generated route for LACNIC - Latin American and Caribbean IP address
remarks: maxLength 22
mnt-by: MNT-UY-LACN-LACNIC
changed: [e-mail] 20191115
source: LACNIC

Example of a route(6) object:

route6: 2001:13c7:7010::/46
descr: LACNIC generated route6 for LACNIC - Latin American and Caribbean IP address
origin: AS28000
remarks: LACNIC generated route6 for LACNIC - Latin American and Caribbean IP address
remarks: maxLength 46
mnt-by: MNT-UY-LACN-LACNIC
changed: [e-mail] 20191115
source: LACNIC

* Route and origin are the pair of attributes that make up the object's primary key.