Re: [sidr] Current document status && directionz

[Christopher Morrow <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 1:47 PM, David Conrad <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Chris,
>
> sure... I think sriram may cover this in his document about the decision
> processes which lead to where we are today.
>
> I think, one way to look at the document and situation is this:
>   o community folks for each RIR asked for RPKI to be supported
>   o RIR folk put in some development $$/effort to do that
>   o no single-root came forward
>
> This is NOT accurate. ICANN, as the IANA Internet Numbering Functions
> Operator, did come forward and we were informed there was no interest from
> the RIRs for the IANA Internet Numbering Functions Operator to participate
> in testing a single root RPKI service.
>

ok, then that's distressing :( we can re-address the situation from the
rirs north through I bet?


>   o to make the RPKI work, specifically for xfers, or one way wrt
> transfers, is to fake the root at each RIR.
>   o rpki progress can still be made until single-root arrives, and then
> some re-signing and probably rough work would have to happen to move under
> the single-root.
> [...]
> apologies for not being up on the chain-of-command, but this doesn't seem
> like it's enough... we've been waiting, what are the blockers? why can't
> this action move forward? (yes, politics, let's move that to anyother list
> I  suppose)
>
> I suspect if the Internet Numbering Community would be interested in a
> single root operated by the IANA Internet Numbering Functions Operator, all
> they need do is _ask_.
>

excellent, thanks for the clarifications.
-chris


> Regards,
>
> -drc
>
> (ICANN CTO, but speaking only for myself. Really)
>
> P.S. In my previous note, I forgot to include the above disclaimer. I am
> not speaking for ICANN here.
>