We learned from Cloudflare's https://isbgpsafeyet.com/ that some ASes have 
deployed RPKI Origin Validation (ROV). However, we downloaded BGP collection 
data from RouteViews and RipeRis platforms and found that some ROV-ASes can 
announce some invalid routes. For example, from RIB data at 2022-10-31 
00:00:00, 13 out of 17 ASes which declared to deploy ROV announced invalid 
routes, and we list the number of related prefixes for each AS below.
ASN  33561299174291469393257645334919002551179221333516509
pref#723314361152731625617105


As a comparison, we count the invalid routes the non-ROV ASes (also declared in 
https://isbgpsafeyet.com/) announces, as below:
ASN67626461127312956123892048570174739009
pref#59760358711161162559492380


We can see that ROV ASes announced apparently fewer invalid routes compared to 
the non-ROV ASes, though they did not filter all the invalids. 
AS6939 announced apparently more invalid routes compared with other ROV-ASes. 
We learned from the discussions two years ago 
(https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-June/108309.html) that AS6939 
uses reactive ROV. I.e., route collectors identify invalid routes, write them 
into scripts and send to routers, who then send "withdrawals" of the invalids 
based on the scripts.
However, for the BGP collection time 2022-10-31 00:00:00, we downloaded the 
two-hour updates afterwards, and found very few withdrawals from AS6939 about 
those invalid routes in the first hour. In the second hour, AS6939 withdraws 
hundreds of invalid prefixes, but most of these withdraws are followed by 
another invalid announcement with the same prefix and same invalid origin AS.


Can anyone help us to correctly interpret this case? Thank you very much.



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