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

[Brian Knight via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

On 2023-11-15 21:47, Christopher Hawker wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.

I've found WHOIS is a good enough resource for this purpose. The SPs 
that are delegating prefixes are good about using SWIP to show 
assignment.

North American SPs are motivated to keep SWIP assignments up to date 
because of ARIN's requirement to demonstrate usage of IP resources for 
IP block transfers.

I think I've needed to request an LOA from a customer for this purpose 
just once in the past 10 years because the SWIP wasn't done. IIRC the 
assigning provider did a SWIP instead.


> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Survey Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JCHLWBB
>
> Thanks,
> Christopher Hawker

-Brian