[arin-ppml] Revisit RPKI TAL Relying Party Agreement?

[Owen DeLong]

> On Feb 3, 2017, at 07:47 , William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 3:49 AM, Job Snijders <job at ntt.net> wrote:
>> Please keep in mind that this thread was about removing barriers, to
>> enable RPKI innovation.
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Is ARIN the right place for an RPKI registry? They seem... reluctant.
> It's not just the data for relying parties; they won't publish RPKI
> information for the legacy registrants without those registrants first
> entering contractual relationships unrelated to RPKI.
> 
> Classically ARIN has had a minimalist role in routing policy
> decisions. This has been considered a good thing. Fundamentally, RPKI
> is routing policy. Maybe another organization should be created to
> manage RPKI in North America, one which doesn't suffer ARIN's mindset.
> 

Since ARIN is the registry, there’s really no other authoritative source
for the information.

As such, nobody else is in a proper position to certify the resource holdings.

Owen