> With inconsistencies I did not mean that the validated cache is out of date, 
> which I agree, will always be there even if it could be minimised.
> 
> The inconsistencies I refer to are different in nature. It's that the 
> snapshot that the RP tool got when it validated is in itself inconsistent: 
> surplus or missing ROAs, or the hash of 1 or more ROAs doesn't match. Longer 
> discussion omitted, but at this point the RP just doesn't know for certain 
> what to do and guidance is needed. This is where *explicitly* stating a 
> strong requirement, rather than leaving it implicit, in pfx-validate comes 
> in..

would you like us to pull in the crucial paragraph from sec 6 of
origin-ops?

   Like the DNS, the global RPKI presents only a loosely consistent
   view, depending on timing, updating, fetching, etc.  Thus, one cache
   or router may have different data about a particular prefix than
   another cache or router.  There is no 'fix' for this, it is the
   nature of distributed data with distributed caches.

randy
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