On Sep 18, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:33 PM nusenu <nusenu-lists@riseup.net <mailto:nusenu-lists@riseup.net>> wrote: Christopher Morrow wrote:
Perhaps this was answered elsewhere, but: "Why is this something ARIN (the org) should take on?"
Thanks for this question, I believe this is an important one.
I reasoned about why I think RIRs are in a good position to send these emails here: [1] but I will quote from it for convenience:
Notifying affected IP Holders
The natural next step (and that was our initial intention when looking at INVALIDs) would be to send out emails to affected IP holders and ask them to address the INVALIDs but although that could be automated, we believe the impact would be better, if that email came from some trusted entity like the RIR relevant to the affected IP holder instead of a random entity they never had any contact before (us).
Asking RIRs to reach out to their members also scales better since every RIR would only have to take care of their own members. [...]
i don't know that the contacts the RIR has for the entity is necessarily the one that controls/deals-with the RPKI data though.
It sort of has to be, as managing your RPKI data (at least in the ARIN region) involves doing it through your ARIN On-Line account which must be associated with the ORG associated with the resources in question.
I also think that generally if folk set all that up they probably know (or will soon enough) that they have a mistake.
You overestimate some things here.
Generally speaking, I think "folk should fix themselves, and maintain/monitor their configuration", that ARIN (or anyone else sending 'unsolicited email') here is going to end badly in the worst case and 'not have any effect' in the majority of cases.
Agreed.
[1] https://medium.com/@nusenu/towards-cleaning-up-rpki-invalids-d69b03ab8a8c <https://medium.com/@nusenu/towards-cleaning-up-rpki-invalids-d69b03ab8a8c>
Why can't (or why isn't) this something that 'many' monitoring/alerting companies/orgs are offering?
There are companies offering BGP monitoring including RPKI ROAs, but the affected IP holders are unlikely customers of those monitoring services or generally aware of the problem.
ok, maybe they should though? :)
I love a good tautology.
it's unclear, to me, why ARIN is in any better position than any other party to perform this sort of activity? I would expect that, at the base level, "I just got random/unexpected email from ARIN?" will get dropped in the spam-can, while: "My monitoring company to which I signed up/contracted emailed into my ticket-system for action.. better go do something!" is the path to incentivize.
The problem is how do you make operators aware of the problem in the first place.
ideally they are aware of thier own config, have a person(s) responsible for managing that configuration and care about reachability... if they don't have that today, they will soon enough.
Optimist! Owen