> On Aug 30, 2021, at 19:06 , John Kristoff <j...@dataplane.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:29:48 -0700
> Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
>
>> Further, the registries are not engaged in the daily operations of the
>> internet.
>
> Hi Owen,
>
> Your statement above I have to insist is simply incorrect. In addition
> to the traditional services that are relied upon in a variety of daily
> operations (e.g. WHOIS, IRR, DNS reverse delegations), the increasingly
> important RPKI TAs/PPs services are of utmost importance in the daily
> operations of an increasing number of networks within and outside their
> region. They are just a different kind of infrastructure service
> operator than we may be commonly thing of when it comes to network
> operations.
Yes, but those services continue even if the registry isn’t open for a couple
of days.
We can agree to disagree about how useful it is to have a cryptographically
signed
indication of what to prepend to your spoofing.
My point is that if an RIR itself closes for a few days, its an event that,
well, happens
pretty much every weekend. After a brief time without the RIR there to make
changes,
the operations performed by that RIR will almost certainly be taken up either
temporarily
or permanently by the other RIRs.
Owen
