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[Ben Rachad Sanoussi]

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On Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 7:50 PM Nishal Goburdhan <nishal at controlfreak.co.za>
wrote:


> On 15 Apr 2021, at 21:06, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

>

> > In message <04590609-E26B-4C6D-9E83-4134E3F525C2 at afrinic.net>,

> > AFRINIC Communication <comms at afrinic.net> wrote:

> >

> >> As we find ourselves turning to the Internet more and more to

> >> manage our lives, internet routing and security becomes an

> >> increasingly important topic. This is why Resource Public Key

> >> Infrastructure (RPKI) is crucial.

> >

> > My hope is that most people on this list already know this fact.

>

> rpki is hardly crucial [1] :-)  it is an_*important* step in securing

> the internet, but it is not the *only* element that warrants addressing

> inside a network.  heck, it’s probably not even the *first* thing that

> most networks should be doing! [2].   and there’s a very real problem,

> with people thinking that “rpki will fix $this!” when, rpki won’t.

>

> that’s not to say that you should not work at implementing rpki for

> your network.  just do *not* do this in isolation.  *that* is the fact,

> that i hope most people grok.  follow the trail from bcp38 (rfc 2827,

> and the later ones in the series..) instead.

>

>

> > Maybe you should focus instead on explaining the importance of

> > RPKI to some of the Tier 0 providers, sich as Cogent (AS174) and

> > Telia (AS1299)..

>

> cogent and telia are already dropping rpki invalids, and have for some

> time.

> your favourite internet search engine should help you find the

> appropriate press releases by the respective parties.

>

>

> > https://bgp.he.net/AS398968

>

> that is not a real-time view;  even the good people at he.net will tell

> you so.

>

>

> -n.

>

> [1]  dns, otoh ..

> [2]  register, fix, ad automate your IRR entries *first*.  then, ..

>

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