This all sounds entirely reasonable.

I'd love for the NCC to document their solution in a similar fashion
if/when this proposal is accepted.
-- 
Tom Strickx
Principal Network Engineer
AS13335 - Cloudflare


On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM Job Snijders <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 01:29:14PM +0100, Tom Strickx via routing-wg wrote:
> > Happy to see this proposal!
> > Fully in agreement with Nick that bogging down the policy with
> > implementation details is a bad idea.
>
> Thanks!
>
> > It might be relevant to operators to tie down the "unable to discover"
> > component. What is considered "reasonable efforts" in this context?
>
> Speaking as RPKI operator I'd expect RIPE NCC to make reasonable efforts
> to discover new Manifests, for example, by corroborating information
> from multiple vantage points.
>
> The NCC could run a handful of validator instances (produced by
> different vendors) in different geographical regions behind different
> providers, then when a 100% of those instances report the CA was
> non-functional for 100% of all indidividual measurements for a 3+ month
> period, conclude the Delegated CA is kaput.
>
> 5 instances times 4 runs per hour times 3 months = 44,640 measurements.
>
> If the NCC makes more than 44,000 attempts to discover+validate a CA's
> Manifest from more than 4 countries, I'd say that is more than
> reasonable.
>
> Should this policy proposal advance, RIPE NCC themselves can probably
> shed more light on how they'd approach measuring whether a CA is
> non-functional or not.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job
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