[OPSAWG]RFC 9977 on Publishing End-Site Prefix Lengths

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        RFC 9977

        Title:      Publishing End-Site Prefix Lengths
        Author:     O. Gasser,
                    R. Bush,
                    M. Candela,
                    R. Housley
        Status:     Proposed Standard
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       May 2026
        Mailbox:    oliver@ipinfo.io,
                    randy@psg.com,
                    massimo@ntt.net,
                    housley@vigilsec.com
        Pages:      26

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-opsawg-prefix-lengths-14.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9977

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9977

This document specifies how to augment the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) inetnum: class to refer specifically to prefixlen files, which are Comma-Separated Values (CSV) files used to specify end-site prefix lengths. This document also describes an optional mechanism that uses the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to authenticate the prefixlen files.

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