[rpd] Last Call - RPKI ROAs for Unallocated and Unassigned AFRINIC Address Space AFPUB-2019-GEN-006-DRAFT03.

[Owen DeLong]

> On Jun 15, 2021, at 12:28 , Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021, 21:59 Job Snijders, <job at fastly.com <mailto:job at fastly.com>> wrote:
> Dear Noah, others,
> 
> Hi Job...
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 06:27:21PM +0300, Noah wrote:
> > > The best measure to put in place to curb incidents is to not implement
> > > this type of policy.
> > 
> > There are several of us who support this policy for valid reasons, some of
> > which are founded on the premise [1] that you shared with the APNIC region
> > back in 2019.
> > 
> > [1] https://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/archive/2019/08/msg00065.html <https://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/archive/2019/08/msg00065.html>
> 
> The point of that email was to show how SMALL the list of prefixes is! :-)
> All this effort (and risk!) to 'punish' a few tens of routes in the
> DFZ.
> 
> In the email you reference, I asked whether anyone could support the
> policy with actual data on network abuse. Nobody answered.
> 
> So in the AFRINIC region, network abuse incidents have been reported on this very list as recent as this year and we have had incidents of misappropriation [1] of INR as well.
> 
> [1] https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-August/003678.html <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-August/003678.html>

Your example cites resources that were misappropriated in such a way that they could have had ROAs issued that would have further masked the misappropriation.

If you’re going to pick a poster child, at least pick one that actually applies to your point.

Owen

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