Your Input Needed: Can ROA Replace LOA? – Short Survey (7 mins)

Thu Nov 16 14:38:30 UTC 2023

Hi Christopher,

No.

Why would your survey take an additional 6.5 minutes to fill out?

	-- Niels.

* chris at thesysadmin.dev (Christopher Hawker) [Thu 16 Nov 2023, 15:20 CET]:
>Hello everyone,
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>Aftab Siddiqui is currently exploring the possibility of using Route Object Authorisations (ROAs) as a potential replacement to LOAs. Separate to this (and unknowing of Aftab's research), I had started a discussion on the RPKI Community guild on Discord (https://discord.gg/9jYcqpbdRE) discussing the usage of ROAs instead of LOAs.
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>An LOA, or "Letter of Authority" / "Letter of Authorization," is a formal document granting permission for third parties to take specific actions regarding network resources or services. In the service provider industry, its primary use is for advertising address resources (IPv4/v6 and ASN). When an organization intends to announce its IP prefixes through its own or a transit provider's ASN to the global internet, it typically needs to provide an LOA to their transit provider, confirming their custodianship or ownership of the resources.
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>RPKI ROA, stands for "Resource Public Key Infrastructure Route Origin Authorization," is part of a security framework designed to validate the authenticity of internet routing information. It involves a digitally signed object that specifies which Autonomous Systems (ASes) are permitted to announce specific IP address prefixes.
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>Could you please take a moment to fill out our brief survey? Your feedback will play a crucial role in our understanding of this topic.
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>Survey Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JCHLWBB
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>Thanks,
>Christopher Hawker