Registry Working Group

[Michael H Lambert <>]

Here's a question.  Based on my reading of section 5.3 of RFC 2622, ASNs or 
as-sets can be members of route-sets, as in

route-set:  AS5050:RS-INTERNET2
descr:      Routes sourced to Internet2 by AS5050
members:    AS5050:AS-ABILENE-ONLY, AS5050:AS-I1-ABILENE
members:    AS5050:RS-3ROX-CORE-I2-ELIGIBLE
tech-c:     PN-ORG-ARIN
mnt-by:     MAINT-AS5050
changed:     20120502
changed:     20120523
changed:     20150223
source:     RADB

However, when I evaluate this object with bgpq3, peval or even Level3's 
filtergen or "whois -m -- \!ias5050:rs-internet2,1", only the route-set 
member is being expanded.  Am I misinterpreting the RFC, or are the tools not 
correctly implementing it?  I suspect the former, but the RFC seems pretty 
explicit.

Michael