[ARIN-consult] Reminder on ARIN Consultation on RPKI/BGP

[John Curran]

> On Feb 14, 2024, at 1:57 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I mean, sure, it can't hurt, but there are other resources for folks
> who want to compare their announcements against their ROAs and even
> get alerts upon detection of invalid routes. I can offer a resounding,
> "I do not care. This would be of limited use to me."

Bill - 

Good to know - I suspect that many of those who are familiar with other tools available 
already have sufficient knowledge of RPKI (at least with regard to issuing ROAs) – and 
hence aren’t necessarily the target audience for the proposed improvements. 

> The elephant in the room isn't hosted RPKI users' ability to check
> their ROAs, it's the very large number of registrations held at ARIN
> which are ineligible for RPKI altogether. Until that changes, RPKI's
> overall utility will remain significantly impaired.


That’s not a chronic condition - such folks can readily enter into an RSA and not only 
obtain contractual certainty regarding their number resources, but also gain access to 
ARIN’s more advanced routing services such as RPKI and authenticated IRR.  

I’ll note that the number of number resources in the ARIN registry not under registration 
services agreement continues to decrease (currently just under 31%) so the problem 
you cite is indeed diminishing over time. 

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers