Re: [Sidrops] request for call for Working Group adoption draft-spaghetti-sidrops-rpki-validation-update

[Job Snijders <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 06:54:35PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> The proposal doesn't seem to be horrible, several software stacks have
> implemented it _and_ the rpki hasn't fallen over yet, so it seems like
> so far, it's not a regression and it seems to fix something, so ...
> yay?

Small point of correction, as far as I know none of the validators is
applying the 'new' algorithm to 'old' codepoints. None of the validators
merged code to do so into their main branch.

We provided these 3 code changesets for illustration purposes, to make
it clear that the 9 pages of hard-to-read document update shuffle work,
the ask to validator implementers actually is quite straight-forward and
easy to implement (if the community chooses to do so).

https://github.com/job/FORT-validator/commit/ff5f4b9313d5c553fa13bae427acb69665977727
https://github.com/job/rpki-rs/commit/d9fa8c72cf83ed6f25e4420eaaa9054078f15bc3
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=161011710120123&w=2

I fully expect each validator implemeter to want to do additional
refactoring/cleanup rather than verbatim copy+paste the above 3
changesets.

There is no deployed code, but the 3 links make it clear it is trivial
to get to a state of deployed code.

In order for validation implementers to adopt something similar to the
above changesets, some in the community requested an internet-draft
exists to reference. Making changes of this nature without an at least
an internet-draft existing would be detrimental to the cohesion of the
ecosystem.

Kind regards,

Job