I ask because there was discussion at the ARIN meeting and Kevin Blumburg made the suggestion that “in 2024, routes will not be accepted without ROAs”.

I didn’t think this was likely, but as someone with resources for which I cannot create ROAs, it is a concern. So far, I haven’t really seen a significant benefit to going to the trouble of creating ROAs, but I also don’t want to suddenly find myself offline because I didn’t, so I figured it was a good idea to get a sense of the community on this.

Thanks to those that replied.

Owen


On Oct 19, 2023, at 12:17, Job Snijders <job@fastly.com> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 at 12:12, Aftab Siddiqui <aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com> wrote:
A quick check to my routing table suggests that I have 206700 preferred routes (v4/v6) to notfound (unknown) destinations. So yeah I don't think anyone can afford to do this right now.


I don’t think anyone can afford to ever do this, regardless of the number of unknown destinations!

Imagine not being able to reach North American destinations for 23 hours because of a cryptographic signing issue at the RIR [0] causing all ROAs to blip out of existence.

Kind regards,

Job