Why are paper LOAs still used?
John Kristoff
jtk at dataplane.org
Mon Feb 26 19:11:49 UTC 2024
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:57:05 -0800
Seth Mattinen via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
> Why do companies still insist on, or deploy new systems that rely on
> paper LOA for IP and ASN resources? How can this be considered more
> trustworthy than RIR based IRR records?
For routing, some have been proposing that the RPKI. There was some
discussion here a few months ago:
<https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2023-November/224035.html>
Shortly thereafter this blog post appeared:
<https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2023-November/224035.html>
> And I'm not even talking about old companies, I have a situation
> right now where a VPS provider I'm using will no longer use IRR and
> only accepts new paper LOAs. In the year 2024. I don't understand how
> anyone can go backwards like that.
Did you ask them why or can you name the provider?
John
More information about the NANOG
mailing list