Re: [Sidrops] www.rpkiviews.org - geographically diverse vantage points

Tim Bruijnzeels <tim@nlnetlabs.nl> Tue, 05 January 2021 08:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Sidrops] www.rpkiviews.org - geographically diverse vantage points
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Hi Job, all,

> On 4 Jan 2021, at 20:40, Job Snijders <job@sobornost.net> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 12:10:54PM -0500, Tony Tauber wrote:
>>> At this URL http://rpkiviews.org/ i am trying to re-publish data I
>>> collected after having made some attempt with OpenBSD's 'rpki-client' to
>>> validate the RPKI data.
>>> 
>>> one view:
>>> 
>>>    http://www.rpkiviews.org/adrian.sobornost.net/rpkidata/2020/12/01/
>>> 
>>> and a bit later I added a second instance with a different view:
>>> 
>>> http://josephine.sobornost.net/josephine.sobornost.net/rpkidata/2021/01/01/
>> 
>> Nice work.
>> When you say "different view", what does that mean?
>> The structure of the data is different or the location in the internet
>> where the collection was performed from ("vantage point"?) was different?
> 
> You are spot on, its just the location that is different. It'll be
> important to keep an eye on 'the RPKI' from multiple angles in the
> default-free zone.
> 
> I imagine we have to include in the risk model how cache instances
> Relying Parties might see different objects coming out of publication
> servers depending on where they are connected to the Internet. 
> 
> Citing RFC 7115 Section 6:
> 
>    """
>    Like the DNS, the global RPKI presents only a loosely consistent
>    view, depending on timing, updating, fetching, etc.  Thus, one cache
>    or router may have different data about a particular prefix than
>    another cache or router.  There is no 'fix' for this, it is the
>    nature of distributed data with distributed caches.
>    """
> 
> As we can't 'fix' it, at least we can monitor and record it (just like
> the weather! :-).
> 
> Adrian.sobornost.net is generously hosted by NTT in their Dallas, TX,
> USA facility. Josephine.sobornost.net is generously hosted by XS4ALL in
> their Amsterdam, NL facility. I've updated the page to provide more
> detail.
> 
>> (The latter perhaps being interesting should reachability of any TALs or
>> Publication Points be different.)
> 
> yup!
> 
> *** REQUEST TO THE GROUP ***
> 
> If others are willing to set up similarly structured data collection
> efforts, I can help in two ways:
> 
>    1) add links towards such initiatives from the www.rpkiviews.org
>       page.
>    2) I myself can configure your data collection server through SSH,
>       all that is required is a POSIX compliant system with... LOTS of
>       disk space.
> 
> It would be incredible valuable to have public viewpoints located in the
> African, Asian, and South American segments of the Internet. 

I think geographically diverse vantage points are indeed valuable.

However, a lot (most) publication points only have a single point of presence, so I suspect that a significant part of the variation in data seen is due to timing differences rather than geography / net topology.

Not a criticism.. just saying it would be good to keep this in mind when analysing differences.

Tim




> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Job
> 
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