CALGARY, CA-AB, Feb. 2, 2023 - The Calgary Internet Exchange (YYCIX) is thrilled to announce the deployment of the world's first ASPA-filtering Route Servers on a public peering fabric. The YYCIX Route Servers drop ASPA-invalid BGP routes in order to protect multilateral peers. ASPA (Autonomous System Provider Authorization) is a free RPKI-based technology for detection and mitigation of BGP route leaks. ASPA enables holders of Autonomous System identifiers to securely authorize one or more other Autonomous Systems as their upstream providers, in turn enabling Relying Parties (ISPs and IXPs) to use this cryptographically verifiable information to automatically stop improbable BGP paths from spreading through the global Internet routing system. ASPA complements other routing safety & security mechanisms: RPKI-ROV helps guard against fat-finger keyboard input errors, BGPsec helps establish strong assurances about BGP message authenticity & integrity, and finally ASPA helps stop route leaks. The key to worry-free routing operations will be to use all three in tandem. The ASPA specification is in active development as a freely accessible open standard through the collaborative Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) process. YYCIX volunteers took on a leading role as early adopters (or 'lighthouse customer') to foster an environment in which real-world feedback can be contributed to the OpenBGPD developers and ASPA specification authors in the SIDROPS working group. Our hope is that many vendors and operators will embrace ASPA in the years to come. About YYCIX Internet Exchange Community Ltd =========================================== YYCIX is incorporated as a volunteer-driven tax-exempt non-profit corporation in Canada's third-largest municipality. YYCIX provides Alberta residents with direct access to local Internet content and helps increase the transfer speed of Internet communications between Alberta companies, friends, neighbors and family members. https://www.yycix.ca/ About OpenBGPD & Rpki-client ============================ Rpki-client is an freely usable and secure implementation of the RPKI for Relying Parties to facilitate validation of BGP announcements. The program queries the global RPKI repository system, verifies all cryptographic signatures, and outputs validated data in configuration formats suitable for OpenBGPD and StayRTR. https://www.rpki-client.org/ OpenBGPD is a free implementation of the IETF's Border Gateway Protocol suitable for ISPs and IXPs. OpenBGPD allows ordinary machines to be used as routers or route servers exchanging routes with other systems. ASPA-filtering in OpenBGPD was developed with support from the German Ministry for Economic Affairs & Climate Action's Sovereign Tech Fund, and the Route Server Support Foundation (RSSF - https://www.rssf.nl/) https://www.openbgpd.org/ OpenBGPD and rpki-client are part of the OpenBSD Project; and run on a wide variety of operating systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, CentOS, Fedora, FreeBSD, Red Hat, and of course OpenBSD!