thanks john. your consideration to the ops community is appreciated. > ARIN continues its preparations for offering production-grade resource > certification services for Internet number resources in the region. > ARIN recognizes the importance of Internet number resource > certification in the region as a key element of further securing > Internet routing, and plans to rollout Resource Public Key > Infrastructure (RPKI) at the end of the second quarter of 2011 with > support for the Up/Down protocol for those ISPs who wish to certify > their subdelegations via their own RPKI infrastructure.
way cool. and there are open source tool-sets the isps can run to handle their resources, generate roas, ... > ARIN continues to evaluate offering a Hosting Resource Certification > service for this purpose (as an alternative to organizations having to > run their own RPKI infrastructure), but at this time it remains under > active consideration and is not committed. We look forward to > discussing the need for this type of service and the organization > implications atour upcoming ARIN Members Meeting in April in San Juan, > PR. i understand fearing holding others' private keys and critical data. no blame there. <separate subject> but out of curiousity, how reality based are arin's general liability fears? in the last few years, how many times has arin been a named defendant in a law suit? how many times a [principal] plaintiff? randy
