[arin-discuss] Question about the ARIN Relying Party Agreement - RPKI 'everyone must sign' and such...

[Christopher Morrow]

howdy,
in the SIDR working group in the IETF there's some discussion about
the ARIN RPA (Relying Party Agreement), and the fact that perhaps
users of the ARIN RPKI Publication Repository will need to
acknowledge/sign the RPA in order to get access to the data in the
repository? The RPA is:
  <https://www.arin.net/resources/rpki/rpa.pdf>

Particularly the first paragraph:
  "YOU MUST READ AND ACCEPT THIS RESOURCE CERTIFICATION RELYING PARTY
AGREEMENT (THIS
“AGREEMENT”) BEFORE ACCESSING OR USING ANY ONLINE RESOURCE
CERTIFICATION PKI (“ORCP”)
SERVICES (AS DEFINED BELOW). IN CONSIDERATION OF ARIN PROVIDING YOU
WITH THE ABILITY TO USE
THE ORCP SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO
NOT AGREE TO THE
TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT SUBMIT A QUERY OR OTHERWISE USE ANY
ORCP SERVICES."

This seems, to me, mean that people outside the ARIN region, those
like in RIPE area, will have to sign something they don't know they
have to sign and ??

This seems confusing and counter productive.... what's up?