[ARIN-consult] Consultation on Pending Functionality for Automatic Creation of IRR Route Objects for Uncovered ROAs

[William Herrin]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 12:32 PM ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
> - Should the automatic creation of IRR route objects for resources that have RPKI ROAs be compulsory,

No, never, absolutely not.

> the default setting, or require explicit opt-in?

Either of these is fine, IMHO.


> - Should IRR Objects be managed via a direct linkage to a ROAs such that they can only be deleted through deletion of the covering ROA,

No, never, absolutely not.

> or should ARIN continue to support independent management of IRR route objects?

Yes.

> - Should ARIN automatically create managed IRR Route Objects for all validated ROAs in the Hosted RPKI repository that do not have matching IRR Route Objects today?

No, but it might be useful to send a one-time email to the tech POC
containing a one-click link that will add them.


Broadly speaking, you shouldn't ever do technical things the user
isn't expecting. Most especially not at random times when the user
isn't expecting anything to happen. That's very bad practice with
almost inevitable breakage, no matter how well conceived the notion.

And... compulsory? Really?

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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William Herrin
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