ROAs Expire

Tue Jan 3 15:39:10 UTC 2023

On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 08:56:28AM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote:
> ROAs expire. Creating new ones doesn't seem to be terribly difficult, but why do they expire in the first place? 

	There's several reasons I can see why one would want this:

1) to ensure that proper care is maintained over the IP space, domains,
certificiates (ROA is a certificiate), etc expire and require renewal.

2) If there's a new cipher algo flaw or similar, it may become necessary
to rotate things.

3) to help avoid some of the problems that exist with unmaintained IRR
objects.

	There's more I'm sure, but this is one of the reasons that I
personally have been hesitatant to roll out some tools, eg: DNSSEC
(which suffers from a variety of ciphers and for some cases lack of
ability to publish to parents - i think this was largely resolved).

	With this increased security also comes to increased fragility,
which I suspect is what you are writing about, something likely broke
for you or someone else due to lack of checking the status of the ROA
expiration.

	This has happened in the past with domains, including big name
ones, so having something setup (eg: roa watch, similar to x509watch on
*nix systems) would be appropriate.

	I'm sure others can refer to tools or services that can do this,
but it's always a good idea to check your objects and watch when they go
away or expire.

	- Jared

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