Hi David et. al.

This is good input. The code was written to match the lifetime of the resource 
cert. We can certainly lower the default down. Is 3 years the consensus?

Thanks,
Mark

From: arin-tech-discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of David 
Farmer <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, January 11, 2019 at 12:10 PM
To: Christopher Morrow <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [arin-tech-discuss] RPKI How long to set a ROA certificate


On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 1:13 AM Christopher Morrow 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:29 PM Delacruz, Anthony B 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:
The default using ARIN systems looks to be 10 years. That just feels like too 
long given how other certificates I interact with expire. What is everyone else

that seems very long.
I expect it might make sense to think about how long do you expect to need the 
ROA (for example)? and how often will your automation be able to update all 
objects which need to be updated? One other thing to keep in mind is how long 
do you think a 'lost' object to be usable?

I agree that is long, and probably too long for the default, but it's not 
insanely long, for much of the Internet prefixes don't change very much once 
they are advertised and typically the prefixes allocated or assigned are the 
ones advertised.  The prefixes intentional advertised by our network have been 
stable for several decades, yes we have added new prefixes, but in the last 
thirty years, only one of our prefixes has had a more specific added to our 
list of intentionally advertised prefixes once initially advertised. The nature 
and longevity (more than 150 year) of our institution lends itself to an 
abnormally high level of stability, nevertheless for much of the Internet 
stability in scale of several years is the norm.

tending to do? We’re just putting our toe in the water for this so using the 
hosted to accommodate a few customers as we research and test doing delegated 
which probably would be 2 or so years out. Would I run into trouble if it’s too 
long then switch to us running on our servers? I wouldn’t think so just expire 
it and issue new ones right? Any tips on running hosted for a while with intent 
to switch to delegated?

seems correct to me, there may be more wonkery required than at first blush 
seems right, but :)

I think somewhere between 2 to 5 years is reasonable and going to be common, 
probably starting out closer to 2 years and over time moving closer to 5 years 
as everyone gains experience. But if you are just dipping your toes in the 
water 1 or 2 years seems perfectly appropriate.

I'd like to see ARIN change the default to 3 years, 10 year is way too long for 
the default, 10 years might be a reasonable maximum though. I'm suggesting 3 
years to help encourage people to not use too short of time, but also these 
things need to be regularly evaluated and update too, 3 years seems a 
reasonable balance of the issues, at least without additional knowledge of 
other circumstances involved.

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