Are Differences in RIR RPKI Implementations Hindering RPKI Adoption?

By Sofía Silva Berenguer – RPKI Program Manager, NRO

A few months ago we shared the outcomes that are guiding the work that we are doing as part of the NRO RPKI Program. We mentioned that we would like to learn more about the community’s expectations regarding consistency across the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) in their Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) implementations, with the ultimate goal of defining what a single, global RPKI system would look like.

We want to learn more about the experience of managing resources across multiple RIRs to understand whether differences in RIR RPKI implementations are hindering RPKI adoption, particularly in terms of Route Origin Authorization (ROA) creation. If so, we aim to identify which differences are the most problematic, so we can focus on making those aspects of the RPKI system more consistent.

With this in mind, we will be conducting a survey, inviting network operators responsible for IP space allocated by different RIRs to share what stage of the RPKI adoption journey they are in and what barriers they may have encountered or are currently facing. The survey will also give participants the option to volunteer for an interview, allowing us to explore some of their answers in greater depth.

Are you a network operator responsible for IP space allocated by multiple RIRs? Please take the survey before 12 September 2024: Your multi-RIR experience in creating ROAs.

Look out for an update on our learnings from the survey and interviews in the next couple of months.

Learn more about ARIN’s RPKI services at arin.net/RPKI.

Post written by:

Sofía Silva Berenguer
RPKI Program Manager, NRO

Sofía holds an MSc in Telematics Engineering and is an Ontological Coach. She works as the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Program Manager for the Number Resource Organization (NRO) and the Process and Productivity Engineer for the Registry Value Stream at APNIC. She joined the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) world in 2010 when she started working for LACNIC as a Hostmaster and Policy Officer. She then held a few different technical roles at LACNIC, as a Networks and Security Engineer first, then moving on to a role as a Senior Security and Stability Specialist. She joined APNIC in 2017 as a Data Scientist, then became a Product Manager and later a Productivity Coach.

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