Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-27 Thread John Curran
On Oct 27, 2014, at 12:58 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote:
 
 LACNIC numbers (as a percent) are quite good, but my question 
 was why only RIPE has the very impressive total count of ROAs.
 
  conjecture follows 
 
 of course one can never know.  but i conject
  o the are the largest registry actively promotin registration
  o the ncc, particularly alex, tim, oleg, ... have put significant
effort into making it very easy to register
  o they have a culture of cooperation and doing things well

Reasonable conjecture; implies that in this region we need to overcome 
our interesting legal situation, make things easy to use, and then do
some significant promotion.  

 You can clearly point to ARIN's legal treatment of the risks involved,
 but that is not applicable in the APNIC case
 
 it is hard to register in apnic, ask folk who have tried.  the most
 active folk are under NIRs, who are only now working on deployment.
 apnic is not really promoting it.

Ah, good to know (and reinforces potential ARIN issues beyond legal 
wrangling)

 You don't feel there's any correlation between RIPE's IRR approach and
 their RPKI success?
 
 that's the cooperative culture bit, actually interested in the net
 running well.

Presumably the NANOG community is also interested in keeping the net
running well, so if ARIN can provide some reasonably usable services, 
that shouldn't be an issue.

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN





Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-26 Thread Randy Bush
john

 To what extent is the ROA growth rate in the RIPE region (on page 5 of
 the NANOG slides) enabled by the IRR practices of that region?

check out slide 3, lacnic has a 20% adoption rate.  both ripe and lacnic
have put energy into their own systems, educating users, ...  ripe's
curve would not seem to show correlation with recent liberalization of
policy, but i doubt it is wise to twy to squeeze cause out of curves.

 I do recognize that there are issues (as Wes nicely identified in
 Baltimore and which we'll be working on) that get in the way of RPKI
 deployment in the ARIN region, but those issues are not present other
 non-RIPE regions - yet the number actual ROA's issued still appears to
 be rather low...

20% coverage in lacnic low?  how do ipv6 and dnssec compare (which is
damned sad)?  over 2,000 in ripe and over 8%?  how does that compare to
ipv6?  

arin, 388 and 0.7%, a joke.  slide 5 It’s What Happens When You Let
Lawyers and Wannabe Regulators Run the Internet

i really loved the arin ac guy i met in baltimore who did not think
having arin meet at nanog was good because those operators just did not
get how to regulate the internet.  you've been captured by the tea
party.

randy


Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-26 Thread John Curran
On Oct 26, 2014, at 6:46 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote:
 
 20% coverage in lacnic low?  how do ipv6 and dnssec compare (which is
 damned sad)?  over 2,000 in ripe and over 8%?  how does that compare to
 ipv6?  
 
 arin, 388 and 0.7%, a joke.

LACNIC numbers (as a percent) are quite good, but my question 
was why only RIPE has the very impressive total count of ROAs.
You can clearly point to ARIN's legal treatment of the risks involved, 
but that is not applicable in the APNIC case

You don't feel there's any correlation between RIPE's IRR approach 
and their RPKI success?   

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN


Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-26 Thread Dmitry Burkov
it's just a consequence that our initial idea was just about to protect 
allocations of our members - not about secure routing at all

On 26 Oct 2014, at 14:40, John Curran jcur...@arin.net wrote:

 On Oct 26, 2014, at 6:46 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote:
 
 20% coverage in lacnic low?  how do ipv6 and dnssec compare (which is
 damned sad)?  over 2,000 in ripe and over 8%?  how does that compare to
 ipv6?  
 
 arin, 388 and 0.7%, a joke.
 
 LACNIC numbers (as a percent) are quite good, but my question 
 was why only RIPE has the very impressive total count of ROAs.
 You can clearly point to ARIN's legal treatment of the risks involved, 
 but that is not applicable in the APNIC case
 
 You don't feel there's any correlation between RIPE's IRR approach 
 and their RPKI success?   
 
 /John
 
 John Curran
 President and CEO
 ARIN



Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-26 Thread Dmitry Burkov
John 
- it is not about RPK
I - our initial goal was to deploy some kind of certification to resources 
allocated to our members

Dmitry

If we use for it some SIDR developments - may be - it is a mistake or 
misentrepration - but what's true that we never thougy
On 26 Oct 2014, at 14:40, John Curran jcur...@arin.net wrote:

 On Oct 26, 2014, at 6:46 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote:
 
 20% coverage in lacnic low?  how do ipv6 and dnssec compare (which is
 damned sad)?  over 2,000 in ripe and over 8%?  how does that compare to
 ipv6?  
 
 arin, 388 and 0.7%, a joke.
 
 LACNIC numbers (as a percent) are quite good, but my question 
 was why only RIPE has the very impressive total count of ROAs.
 You can clearly point to ARIN's legal treatment of the risks involved, 
 but that is not applicable in the APNIC case
 
 You don't feel there's any correlation between RIPE's IRR approach 
 and their RPKI success?   
 
 /John
 
 John Curran
 President and CEO
 ARIN



Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-26 Thread Randy Bush
 LACNIC numbers (as a percent) are quite good, but my question 
 was why only RIPE has the very impressive total count of ROAs.

 conjecture follows 

of course one can never know.  but i conject
  o the are the largest registry actively promotin registration
  o the ncc, particularly alex, tim, oleg, ... have put significant
effort into making it very easy to register
  o they have a culture of cooperation and doing things well

 You can clearly point to ARIN's legal treatment of the risks involved,
 but that is not applicable in the APNIC case

it is hard to register in apnic, ask folk who have tried.  the most
active folk are under NIRs, who are only now working on deployment.
apnic is not really promoting it.

 You don't feel there's any correlation between RIPE's IRR approach and
 their RPKI success?

that's the cooperative culture bit, actually interested in the net
running well.

randy


Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-25 Thread Danny McPherson

On 2014-10-24 15:24, Christopher Morrow wrote:


it seems to me that there are a couple simple issues with IRR data
(historically):
  1) no authority for it (really, at least in the ARIN region)
  2) no common practice of keeping it updated
  3) proxy-registration issues (probably part of cleanup and 
authority issues)

  4) lack of widespread use due to the above issues.


I think that's a subset of the issues.  Those and others are captured 
here:


https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-grow-irr-routing-policy-considerations-05

Ironically, many of the issues that lead to decay in IRR use have been 
resolved, while others exist in RPKI, even.


Baldur's RIPE IRR point is a fair one and worthy of consideration, I'm 
all for low-hanging fruit.



I was/am hopeful that providing some path from IANA (eventually) on
down through RIR to LIR to end-user for 'authority to use' ip
resources would help in letting people use the IRR data cleansed of
insanity by the data from this path, and then into routers for route
filters.


And datapath filters for inter-domain anti-spoofing, perhaps, as it's 
largely the same policy (I know there are corner cases people that don't 
want to do this point out).



The RPKI system looks like the path in question, to me.


I know you're an RPKI fan, I'm at peace with that :-)

However, unless you can fortify the systems that RPKI (or any other 
resource certification infrastructure) would inform, operators have 
little incentive to use it as all the systems that are already deployed 
and still have to use (e.g., whois, in-addr.arpa, IRR, etc.) still have 
to be used and managed and operated.   RPKI adds considerable 
complexity, costs, scaling challenges, new external dependencies, etc..  
I actually think it'd have been a challenge to design something _more 
complicated than RPKI to address the problem space, but that's just me.


-danny




Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-25 Thread Sandra Murphy
Other RIR based RIRs have the same ability to protect prefixes in their realm 
of control.  (See RFC 2725 RPSS)(*)  (I think that APNIC is doing pretty much 
as RIPE is.) 

Even RIPE is not secure for prefixes outside their region.  (There's one 
maintainer that anyone can use to register anything for resources outside the 
region - password publicly available, etc.)

Non-RIR based IRRs do not have the ability to tie the register-er to authority 
for the resource, so they have no base on which to build the RIPE sort of 
security.

--Sandy

(*) (yes, I'm listed as an author, but Curtis Villamizer was far and away the 
principal author.)

On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Baldur Norddahl baldur.nordd...@gmail.com wrote:

 The RIPE IRR is secure. Why not just copy that for the other regions?
 
 Baldur



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Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-25 Thread Bill Woodcock

On Oct 25, 2014, at 9:38 PM, Danny McPherson da...@tcb.net wrote:

 On 2014-10-24 15:24, Christopher Morrow wrote:
 
 it seems to me that there are a couple simple issues with IRR data
 (historically):
  1) no authority for it (really, at least in the ARIN region)
  2) no common practice of keeping it updated
  3) proxy-registration issues (probably part of cleanup and authority issues)
  4) lack of widespread use due to the above issues.
 
 I think that's a subset of the issues.  Those and others are captured here:
 
 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-grow-irr-routing-policy-considerations-05
 
 Ironically, many of the issues that lead to decay in IRR use have been 
 resolved, while others exist in RPKI, even.
 
 Baldur's RIPE IRR point is a fair one and worthy of consideration, I'm all 
 for low-hanging fruit.
 
 I was/am hopeful that providing some path from IANA (eventually) on
 down through RIR to LIR to end-user for 'authority to use' ip
 resources would help in letting people use the IRR data cleansed of
 insanity by the data from this path, and then into routers for route
 filters.
 
 And datapath filters for inter-domain anti-spoofing, perhaps, as it's largely 
 the same policy (I know there are corner cases people that don't want to do 
 this point out).
 
 The RPKI system looks like the path in question, to me.
 
 I know you're an RPKI fan, I'm at peace with that :-)
 
 However, unless you can fortify the systems that RPKI (or any other resource 
 certification infrastructure) would inform, operators have little incentive 
 to use it as all the systems that are already deployed and still have to use 
 (e.g., whois, in-addr.arpa, IRR, etc.) still have to be used and managed and 
 operated.   RPKI adds considerable complexity, costs, scaling challenges, new 
 external dependencies, etc..  I actually think it'd have been a challenge to 
 design something _more complicated than RPKI to address the problem space, 
 but that's just me.

I had dinner with Russ and Wes during the LA ICANN meeting, and asked, in 
passing, whether RPKI conferred any benefits that just throwing appropriate IRR 
records into a signed in-addr didn’t, and they had an answer in the 
affirmative, but I can’t remember the details now, because I was jet-lagged and 
it was in the middle of a conversation about something else.  Russ, Wes, anyone 
else with an interest, could you explain that again?

-Bill






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Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-25 Thread John Curran
On Oct 23, 2014, at 4:18 PM, Danny McPherson da...@tcb.net wrote:
 
 On 2014-10-23 12:33, Christopher Morrow wrote:
 
 Sounds like you want to see the rirs make sure they get rpki work
 dine and widely available with the least encumbrances on the network
 operator community as possible.
 
 Or focus on more short/intermediate term returns like fortifying all the 
 existing systems and automating processes that are already deployed and focus 
 on ROI of members and operational buffers required by the community _today.  
 E.g., IRR training and investment rather than RPKI, which this thread began 
 with.
 
 I'd continue and say in-addr.arpa or the like for resource certification 
 because RPKI is so ugly, silly without a single root aligned with number 
 resource allocations, etc.., but that'd require response cycles I'm not going 
 to spend there.

Just for avoidance of any doubt - 

The ARIN Board of Trustees has consistently directed that ARIN work on
technical capabilities that the community clearly expresses some level
of interest in, i.e. there is no standing directive that particular 
technology solutions must be (or must not be) deployed.   We have had
very specific requests for supporting RPKI, so we've done the necessary
work for hosted and delegated certificate authority (CA) services. We
can continue to enhance RPKI, or deploy other technical solutions, or
some combination (as the community directs)

With respect to IRR support, the same answer applies. If the community
is clear on direction, ARIN can strengthen the current IRR offerings,
phase them out and redirect folks to existing solutions, or any other
direction as desired.  The hardest part is getting a common view in the
community on the desired approach; this leads to the strong adoption 
that is necessary for these types of systems to have meaningful benefit.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN




Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-25 Thread Danny McPherson

On 2014-10-25 08:25, John Curran wrote:


With respect to IRR support, the same answer applies. If the 
community

is clear on direction, ARIN can strengthen the current IRR offerings,
phase them out and redirect folks to existing solutions, or any other
direction as desired.  The hardest part is getting a common view in 
the

community on the desired approach; this leads to the strong adoption
that is necessary for these types of systems to have meaningful 
benefit.


I didn't necessarily intend to fault ARIN here, some very vocal folks 
have pushed ARIN (and others) pretty hard on focusing considerable 
resources on experimental systems (RPKI [/BGPSEC]) that may never see 
broad-scale adoption and use, for an array of technical, business, and 
geopolitical reasons.  I could be wrong.


As an ARIN and community member, I'd prefer to see more work on nearer 
term solutions and better leveraging existing systems that we're already 
captive to and will still need in the future (e.g., IRR hygiene work and 
more security rails, tool sets, training for operators, perhaps 
in-addr.arpa or other techniques to validate resource holders, etc..).  
If orthodox visions materialize that provide utility and a reasonable 
ROI without introducing excess risk and overhead and complexity and 
undue external dependencies for the folks that would be captive to those 
new systems, then great.


I continue to believe that the only way any resource certification 
system is going to realize adoption is by taking this incremental 
approach of fortifying existing systems and supplying sufficient 
operational buffers, and that the easiest way to stunt deployment and 
adoption of RPKI is to slam it directly into the routing system and 
compromise current autonomy in routing operations that exists and makes 
the Internet resilient.


Thanks for that response, John.

-danny



Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-25 Thread Danny McPherson

On 2014-10-25 06:57, Sandra Murphy wrote:

Other RIR based RIRs have the same ability to protect prefixes in
their realm of control.  (See RFC 2725 RPSS)(*)  (I think that APNIC
is doing pretty much as RIPE is.)

Even RIPE is not secure for prefixes outside their region.  (There's
one maintainer that anyone can use to register anything for resources
outside the region - password publicly available, etc.)

Non-RIR based IRRs do not have the ability to tie the register-er to
authority for the resource, so they have no base on which to build 
the

RIPE sort of security.


Those are fair points Sandy, I agree they need to be resolved.

It's just that RPKI feels like a _really heavy solution to _that 
problem.  That said, if that problem were solved nearly all of what I 
care about with regard to routing security (and inter-domain 
anti-spoofing) could be addressed.


-danny




Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-25 Thread Randy Bush
you just happen to have the view from a third world country
look at.
http://archive.psg.com/141006.rpki-nanog.pdf  slides 4  5
or
  http://certification-stats.ripe.net/?type=roa-v4

randy


Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-25 Thread Ca By
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote:

 you just happen to have the view from a third world country
 look at.
 http://archive.psg.com/141006.rpki-nanog.pdf  slides 4  5
 or
   http://certification-stats.ripe.net/?type=roa-v4

 randy


I agree with Randy.  RPKI is achievable today.  Signing routes is a trivial
amount of effort, there is really no excuse to not do it.  Even i did it.

Validation does take effort, but it is consistent with the level of effort
to deploy any new router feature.

CB


Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-25 Thread John Curran
On Oct 25, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote:
 
 you just happen to have the view from a third world country
 look at.
http://archive.psg.com/141006.rpki-nanog.pdf  slides 4  5
 or
  http://certification-stats.ripe.net/?type=roa-v4

Randy - 
 
  To what extent is the ROA growth rate in the RIPE region (on
  page 5 of the NANOG slides) enabled by the IRR practices of 
  that region?  

  I do recognize that there are issues (as Wes nicely identified
  in Baltimore and which we'll be working on) that get in the way 
  of RPKI deployment in the ARIN region, but those issues are not 
  present other non-RIPE regions -  yet the number actual ROA's 
  issued still appears to be rather low...  

Thoughts?
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN




Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-24 Thread John Sweeting
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Danny McPherson da...@tcb.net wrote:

 On 2014-10-23 12:33, Christopher Morrow wrote:

  Sounds like you want to see the rirs make sure they get rpki work
 dine and widely available with the least encumbrances on the network
 operator community as possible.


 Or focus on more short/intermediate term returns like fortifying all the
 existing systems and automating processes that are already deployed and
 focus on ROI of members and operational buffers required by the community
 _today.  E.g., IRR training and investment rather than RPKI, which this
 thread began with.


makes perfect sense to focus on validating existing systems such as IRR.
Seems like very low hanging fruit with a lot of benefit and a good ROI



 I'd continue and say in-addr.arpa or the like for resource certification
 because RPKI is so ugly, silly without a single root aligned with number
 resource allocations, etc.., but that'd require response cycles I'm not
 going to spend there.

  Did you see wes's slides / talk at the last nanog?


 I did (after).

 Aside, I understand why the ARIN board did what they did with the RPA and
 I don't blame them -- it seemed well considered to me, but that's just me.

 Reminded of Taleb's Fat Tony quote [paraphrased]: If the pilot ain't on
 the plane, you probably don't want to get on it,

 -danny










Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-24 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:23 AM, John Sweeting john.sweet...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Danny McPherson da...@tcb.net wrote:

 On 2014-10-23 12:33, Christopher Morrow wrote:

 Sounds like you want to see the rirs make sure they get rpki work
 dine and widely available with the least encumbrances on the network
 operator community as possible.


 Or focus on more short/intermediate term returns like fortifying all the
 existing systems and automating processes that are already deployed and
 focus on ROI of members and operational buffers required by the community
 _today.  E.g., IRR training and investment rather than RPKI, which this
 thread began with.


 makes perfect sense to focus on validating existing systems such as IRR.
 Seems like very low hanging fruit with a lot of benefit and a good ROI

it seems to me that there are a couple simple issues with IRR data
(historically):
  1) no authority for it (really, at least in the ARIN region)
  2) no common practice of keeping it updated
  3) proxy-registration issues (probably part of cleanup and authority issues)
  4) lack of widespread use due to the above issues.

I was/am hopeful that providing some path from IANA (eventually) on
down through RIR to LIR to end-user for 'authority to use' ip
resources would help in letting people use the IRR data cleansed of
insanity by the data from this path, and then into routers for route
filters.

The RPKI system looks like the path in question, to me.

 I'd continue and say in-addr.arpa or the like for resource certification
 because RPKI is so ugly, silly without a single root aligned with number
 resource allocations, etc.., but that'd require response cycles I'm not
 going to spend there.

 Did you see wes's slides / talk at the last nanog?


 I did (after).

 Aside, I understand why the ARIN board did what they did with the RPA and
 I don't blame them -- it seemed well considered to me, but that's just me.

 Reminded of Taleb's Fat Tony quote [paraphrased]: If the pilot ain't on
 the plane, you probably don't want to get on it,

 -danny


Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-24 Thread Baldur Norddahl
The RIPE IRR is secure. Why not just copy that for the other regions?

Baldur


ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-23 Thread Danny McPherson

soapbox

I think the routing system would be in a much happier [less bad] place 
if only had a minor amount of the energy and resources that USG (and 
RIRs) have been put towards RPKI and BGPSEC (i.e., IETF SIDR work) would 
have been redirected to lower hanging fruit and better recognizing / 
leveraging existent systems and operational practices (e.g., more IRR 
usage, training, tools, and better hygiene, perhaps expressly validated 
from resource certification from either RPKI or in-addr.arpa, etc).  
Given that many of the same derived policies there could also be 
employed for inter-domain datapath anti-spoofing (BCP38-ish 
inter-domain) and that all the existing machinery and practices already 
deployed could more easily accommodate this in the near term, it seems 
only natural to me.


As for the visionaries playing the long game, they've made progress, 
but surely the only way to get there is with more incremental putty 
and small practical steps to fill the gaps at this point.


/soapbox

I for one would like to see ARIN (as well as other RIRs and the 
adjacent community) invest more pragmatically in this area, particularly 
given the governance climate and other externalities at play these days.


Alas,

-danny




Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-23 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Oct 23, 2014 2:27 PM, Danny McPherson da...@tcb.net wrote:

 soapbox

 I think the routing system would be in a much happier [less bad] place if
only had a minor amount of the energy and resources that USG (and RIRs)
have been put towards RPKI and BGPSEC (i.e., IETF SIDR work) would have
been redirected to lower hanging fruit and better recognizing / leveraging
existent systems and operational practices (e.g., more IRR usage, training,
tools, and better hygiene, perhaps expressly validated from resource
certification from either RPKI or in-addr.arpa, etc).  Given that many of
the same derived policies there could also be employed for inter-domain
datapath anti-spoofing (BCP38-ish inter-domain) and that all the existing
machinery and practices already deployed could more easily accommodate this
in the near term, it seems only natural to me.

 As for the visionaries playing the long game, they've made progress, but
surely the only way to get there is with more incremental putty and small
practical steps to fill the gaps at this point.

 /soapbox

 I for one would like to see ARIN (as well as other RIRs and the adjacent
community) invest more pragmatically in this area, particularly given the
governance climate and other externalities at play these days.


Sounds like you want to see the rirs make sure they get rpki work dine and
widely available with the least encumbrances on the network operator
community as possible. Did you see wes's slides / talk at the last nanog?

 Alas,

 -danny




Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-23 Thread Danny McPherson

On 2014-10-23 12:33, Christopher Morrow wrote:


Sounds like you want to see the rirs make sure they get rpki work
dine and widely available with the least encumbrances on the network
operator community as possible.


Or focus on more short/intermediate term returns like fortifying all 
the existing systems and automating processes that are already deployed 
and focus on ROI of members and operational buffers required by the 
community _today.  E.g., IRR training and investment rather than RPKI, 
which this thread began with.


I'd continue and say in-addr.arpa or the like for resource 
certification because RPKI is so ugly, silly without a single root 
aligned with number resource allocations, etc.., but that'd require 
response cycles I'm not going to spend there.



Did you see wes's slides / talk at the last nanog?


I did (after).

Aside, I understand why the ARIN board did what they did with the RPA 
and I don't blame them -- it seemed well considered to me, but that's 
just me.


Reminded of Taleb's Fat Tony quote [paraphrased]: If the pilot ain't 
on the plane, you probably don't want to get on it,


-danny









Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-23 Thread Sandra Murphy
 IRR usage, training, tools, and better hygiene, perhaps expressly validated 
 from resource certification from either RPKI

You might be interested in the draft-ietf-sidr-rpsl-sig-05.txt, which suggests 
using RPKI to protect RPSL objects.

That would help solve the trust problem in the current IRR world, which is that 
most IRRs can't tell if the object being registered is authorized.  RIPE and, I 
think, APNIC being the exception, for their region resources.  Lots of proxy 
registered objects aren't a good sign.

--Sandy


On Oct 23, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Danny McPherson da...@tcb.net wrote:

 soapbox
 
 I think the routing system would be in a much happier [less bad] place if 
 only had a minor amount of the energy and resources that USG (and RIRs) have 
 been put towards RPKI and BGPSEC (i.e., IETF SIDR work) would have been 
 redirected to lower hanging fruit and better recognizing / leveraging 
 existent systems and operational practices (e.g., more IRR usage, training, 
 tools, and better hygiene, perhaps expressly validated from resource 
 certification from either RPKI or in-addr.arpa, etc).  Given that many of the 
 same derived policies there could also be employed for inter-domain 
 datapath anti-spoofing (BCP38-ish inter-domain) and that all the existing 
 machinery and practices already deployed could more easily accommodate this 
 in the near term, it seems only natural to me.
 
 As for the visionaries playing the long game, they've made progress, but 
 surely the only way to get there is with more incremental putty and small 
 practical steps to fill the gaps at this point.
 
 /soapbox
 
 I for one would like to see ARIN (as well as other RIRs and the adjacent 
 community) invest more pragmatically in this area, particularly given the 
 governance climate and other externalities at play these days.
 
 Alas,
 
 -danny
 



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Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-23 Thread Danny McPherson

On 2014-10-23 15:02, Sandra Murphy wrote:
IRR usage, training, tools, and better hygiene, perhaps expressly 
validated from resource certification from either RPKI


You might be interested in the draft-ietf-sidr-rpsl-sig-05.txt, which
suggests using RPKI to protect RPSL objects.


Yep, I'm aware of that and think that's a really useful thing if RPKI 
is the resource certification infrastructure we must use.



That would help solve the trust problem in the current IRR world,
which is that most IRRs can't tell if the object being registered is
authorized.  RIPE and, I think, APNIC being the exception, for their
region resources.  Lots of proxy registered objects aren't a good
sign.


Agreed!

That said, if people are still having issues with IRRs and lack of 
training, toolsets, and usability around them today and after deploying 
RPKI they still need IRRs (and whois, and in-addr.arpa, and..) for a 
whole bunch of stuff just to keep the packets flowing then the height 
limit to do basic and useful things just became that much higher, and 
requires a lot more care and feeding then before RPKI (even absent all 
the architectural aspects of RPKI that are interesting).


-danny