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

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 10:22 AM Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:
> > In the service provider industry, its primary use is for advertising address resources (IPv4/v6 and ASN)
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> Not really.

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I would think there are a few uses of LOA in the telco/SP world, at least:

  1) 'can I make this cross-connect happen?'
  2) 'can I do some work on this link/path/fiber/conduit on behalf of
<customerX> where the entity to be worked on is <providerY>
infrastructure'
  3) 'Please accept this internet number resource from <customerX>
when the number resource is authorized for use by <entityA>'

I would love to see ROA take over the 3rd of those, since it's a clear
indicator that:
  "RIR authorizes LIR to use <number resource>, LIR authorizes
AS-OWNER to originate <number resource>"

and by 'clear indicator' I mean: "has some cryptographic/PKI backing
you can follow to the RIR in an automated fashion"
Where 'LOA' generally is a xerox of a photocopy of a fax of a
dot-matrix printed MS-Word templated document which perhaps has an X
on the 'signature' line...

-chris