<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 25 Sep 2018, at 3:34 PM, Job Snijders <<a href="mailto:job@ntt.net" class="">job@ntt.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class="">...<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">What I'm hoping for is that there is a way for the ARIN TAL to be</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">included in software distributions, without compromising ARIN's legal</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">position.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Perhaps an exception for software distributors would already go a long</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">way?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> "You can include the ARIN TAL in your software distribution as long</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> as you also include an unmodified copy of the</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.arin.net/resources/rpki/rpa.pdf" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://www.arin.net/resources/rpki/rpa.pdf</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>file alongside it."</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Kind regards,</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Job - </div><div><br class=""></div><div>While not exactly what you seek, we can get a bit closer to the goal – i.e. by eliminating the need for the user installing a software package to first go get the ARIN TAL and put it in the right place prior to running the installation software. </div><div><br class=""></div><div><div>To that end, the ARIN TAL page <<a href="https://www.arin.net/resources/rpki/tal.html" class="">https://www.arin.net/resources/rpki/tal.html</a>> has been revised with specific guidance –</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b class="">Software Installation Tools</b></i></div><div><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Software installation tools may download the ARIN TAL on behalf of a user after the user has confirmed their acceptance of the ARIN Relying Party Agreement (RPA) on the ARIN website. This acceptance must require "agreement to the ARIN Relying Party Agreement (<a href="https://www.arin.net/resources/rpki/rpa.pdf" class="">https://www.arin.net/resources/rpki/rpa.pdf</a>)" and obtain a non-ambiguous affirmative action by clicking on, or the entry of, a word of agreement (such as "yes" or "accept")<br class=""><br class=""></i><div class=""><div class="indent" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em; border: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="" style="margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em;"><i class="">Example:</i></div><div class="samplecode" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1em; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><div class="" style="margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; line-height: 1.5em;">Attention: This package requires the download of the ARIN TAL and agreement to the ARIN Relying Party Agreement (RPA) (<a href="https://www.arin.net/resources/rpki/rpa.pdf" class="">https://www.arin.net/resources/rpki/rpa.pdf</a>).</div><div class="" style="margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; line-height: 1.5em;">Type "yes" to agree, and you can proceed with the ARIN TAL download: <em class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em;">yes</em></div></div></div></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div>We will continue to explore mechanisms for making ARIN’s RPKI repository more accessible to the community, but felt that this interim step could be accomplished promptly and was worth noting in a timely manner to those distributing RPKI software. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks!<br class="">/John<br class=""><br class=""></div><div>John Curran<br class="">President and CEO<br class="">American Registry for Internet Numbers</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>