From geier at geier.ne.tz  Thu Apr  2 18:16:59 2026
From: geier at geier.ne.tz (Frank Habicht)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 21:16:59 +0300
Subject: [RPKI-Discuss] the case for ASPA objects
Message-ID: <79e9f2ac-580b-471f-b14a-621800504d25@geier.ne.tz>

Dear AfriNIC staff and members,

It has come to my attention that some people feel that we need more 
public outrage that AfriNIC still doesn't support delegated mode RPKI.

That's mostly because some members wish to create ASPA records and with 
the AfriNIC-hosted solution this is still not possible - in my 
understanding, to be corrected.

Maybe they are right.

I tried to find public statements with timelines.
at [1] on slide 23, I found "July 2011".

I probably didn't search well enough for more...

the address rpki-help at afrinic.net has received a detailed request from a 
member on January 5th.

I can represent 4 members asking you to provide a solution to members 
for the creation of ASPA objects. Best by enabling both methods, of course.

I consider volunteering to get you a list of many more members who do 
have the need for that and want to officially support AfriNIC moving 
more quickly to accomplish this.

How many do we need?

I would hope that it is well known that this is a request for the 
betterment and positive development of routing security.

Which I believe to be withing the mandate of AfriNIC.

I have seen messages that this could be a request to be "discussed" 
within an AfriNIC Working Group. Does anybody at AfriNIC think that any 
discussion is needed? Or would you just like to provide be above 
requested number?

Personally, I believe this is more a topic for a staff meeting at 
AfriNIC than for a Working Group... Mostly because it's 2026.

In the meantime, can others please help me with the public outrage?

Thanks,
Frank Habicht
ORG-SL71-AFRINIC


[1]
https://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-13/images/stories/af13_presentation/AF-13-24/10-RPKI-AFRINIC-13-simplified.pdf