thanks mark! :)

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 4:34 PM Mark Kosters <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Summary
>
> On Nov 19 at 2:30PM EST (UTC-5), ARIN updated the software that generates the 
> RPKI repository.   On Nov 20 at 9:48PM EST (UTC-5), we were notified by a 3rd 
> party that validators no longer were fetching ROAs from organizations that 
> had selected the delegated option.  Upon review, ARIN Engineering discovered 
> that a certificate was not included in the manifest for each delegated 
> organization. The fix was to include that certificate in the manifest for 
> each delegated organization was deployed at 1:20AM EST (UTC-5) on Nov 21.  At 
> that time, ROAs from the affected delegated repositories could then again be 
> fetched and validated.
>
> ARIN's hosted RPKI customers were not affected by this outage in any way.
>
> Root Cause
>
> The root cause of this failure was a software bug that was introduced by the 
> RPKI repository generator.
>
> Scope of Issue
>
> This bug meant that validators would not fetch information from the delegated 
> repositories during the affected period.  ARIN has nine delegated 
> organizations and affected approximately 180 ROAs that may have disappeared 
> from the global RPKI system for approximately 35 hours and 40 minutes 
> starting on Nov 19 at 2:30PM EST (UTC-5). Depending on how validation is 
> setup by the ISPs who use RPKI, the route origins associated with these 180 
> ROA’s may have remained in the secure state or became unsecure during this 
> period.
>

I think 'unknown' and maybe (if there were ROA for supernets possibly
invalid :( oops.

> After Action Items
>
> ARIN will add additional delegated repository tests to prevent this type of 
> operational issue to happen again. Additionally, as planned, ARIN will be 
> adding additional improvements to its external monitoring that uses various 
> validators to ensure that the repository is working as intended.
>

Do you all document what is tested? so either RP software folk can
integrate similar tests (or suggest others), and/or so actual ARIN
users of the RPKI can test their (or instrument their) repository
collections?

> Regards,
> Mark Kosters
> ARIN CTO
>
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