On 13 Aug 2019, at 9:28 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
...
The
last time I looked, RPKI adoption was sitting at around a grand total
of
15% worldwide. Ah yes, here it is...
https://rpki-monitor.antd.nist.gov/
I've
asked many people and many companies why adoption remains so low, and
why
their own companies aren't doing RPKI. I've gotten the usual assortment
of
utterly lame excuses, but the one that I have had the hardest time
trying
to counter is the one where a network engineer says to me "Well,
ya
know, we were GOING to do that, but then ARIN... unlike the other four
regional
authorities... demanded that we sign some silly thing indemnifying
them
in case of.... something.
Interestingly enough, those same indemnification clauses are in the registration services agreement that they already signed but apparently they were not an issue at all when requesting IP address space or receiving a transfer.
You might want want to ask them why they are now a problem when they weren’t before (Also worth noting that many of these ISP's own contracts with their customers have rather similar indemnification clauses.)
Thanks!
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers