ARIN would like to remind the community about the ongoing consultation on 
possible new features in ARIN Online that will provide tighter integration of 
ARIN’s Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) and Internet Routing Registry 
(IRR) routing security services. This consultation is slated to close on 
Sunday, 10 September, so be sure to submit your comments to the arin-consult 
mailing list before then. Read the full text of the consultation at: 

https://www.arin.net/participate/community/acsp/consultations/2023/2023-4/

As of 24 August, we have received a range of opinions on how best to proceed. 
As a result of the feedback received so far, we are planning to develop the 
following features: 

- A per-OrgID setting entitled “ Automatic IRR Route Object Maintenance for 
RPKI ROAs”.  This setting will be “on” by default when we add it to all OrgIDs, 
but customers can readily turn it off 
- On the Routing Security Dashboard, there will be a checkbox entitled 
“Automatic IRR Route Object Maintenance” which is where an Org can opt-out of 
the default IRR route automation 
- At the Org ID level, there will be an option for a one-time “catch up” that 
will automatically create Route Objects for each ROA in question. This one time 
“catch up” will also result in existing Route Objects being automatically 
maintained.  

We are also planning to make the following changes to RPKI and IRR 
functionality: 

- Upon creation or removal of a ROA with the default automation attribute set 
to on, we will make the appropriate change to corresponding IRR Route Object(s) 
- When a Route Object is automatically generated by ROA creation, its existence 
is dependent on the ROA; however, the customer will maintain the ability to 
delete or modify the Route Object and not impact the state of its corresponding 
ROA 

Regarding the question of the appropriate number of Route Objects that should 
be created based on the ROA prefix and max length configuration, ARIN plans to 
provide an additional checkpoint that will require  a user  to positively 
select the option to apply a maxLength value, only after being presented with 
information about the RFC 9319 best practice recommendation to limit the use of 
maxLength in ROAs, and the exposure to a potential forced origin sub-prefix 
hijack with a liberal use of maxLength. If an organization has automatic IRR 
generation turned on, and a maxLength is set on a ROA, ARIN will generate the 
IRR Route Object with the least specific match based on the prefix(s) in the 
triggering ROA. 

There has been strong and consistent feedback against automatically creating 
managed IRR Route Objects for all validated ROAs in the Hosted RPKI repository 
that do not have matching IRR Route Objects, so we will not force this action. 
No IRR objects will be created without the customers' expressed permission. 

There is still time to share your thoughts on this important consultation on 
pending features and functionality that will integrate ARIN’s routing security 
services. We would appreciate your feedback on the changes proposed above. 

Please provide your comments to arin-cons...@arin.net. 

You can subscribe to this mailing list at: 

http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult. 

We look forward to your feedback on this important topic. 

 
Regards, 

John Curran 
President and CEO 
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)


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