[134453] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AltDB?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Thu Jan 6 01:21:15 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <m2vd23ugkw.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 20:21:03 -1000
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 5, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> i have a rumor that arin is delaying and possibly not doing rpki that
> seems to have been announced on the ppml list (to which i do not
> subscribe). =20
I heard about the delay, but not about ARIN possibly not doing RPKI. =
That would be ... surprising. While I have always had some questions =
regarding the political (not technical) feasibility of actually =
deploying secure routing based on the top-down hierarchical model =
assumed by RPKI, it seems obvious to me that there needs to be a better =
way to authenticate allocation data other than querying a whois server. =
RPKI will (would have?) provided this and the actual deployment of RPKI =
would allow the ops community to gain experience with the technology.
> as it has impact on routing, not address policy, across
> north america and, in fact the globe, one would think it would be
> announced and discussed a bit more openly and widely.
The definition of what comes under the "public policy mailing list" =
umbrella has always been a bit confusing to me. Too bad something like =
the APNIC SIGs and RIPE Working Groups don't really exist in the ARIN =
region.
Regards,
-drc
