RPKI Route Origin Validation - Africa

[Ben Maddison via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

Hello all.
In November 2018 during the ZAPF (South African Peering Forum) meeting in Cape Town, 3 major African ISP's announced 
that they would enable RPKI-based ROV (Route Origin Validation), including dropping Invalid routes as part of efforts 
to improve Internet routing security, on the 1st April, 2019.
On the 1st of April, Workonline Communications (AS37271) enabled ROV and began dropping Invalid routes. This applies to 
all eBGP sessions, both IPv4 and IPv6.
On the 5th of April, SEACOM (AS37100) enabled ROV and began dropping Invalid routes. This applies to eBGP sessions with 
public peers, private peers and transit providers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. eBGP sessions toward downstream customers 
will follow in 3 months time.
Implementation at the third ISP has yet to be completed. We are sure they will communicate with the community when they 
are ready to do so.
Please note that for the legal reasons previously discussed in various fora, neither Workonline nor SEACOM are 
utilising the ARIN TAL. As a result, any routes covered only by a ROA issued under the ARIN TAL will fall back to a 
status of Not Found. Unfortunately, this means that ARIN members will not see any improved routing security for their 
prefixes on our networks until this is resolved.
We will each re-evaluate this decision if and when ARIN's policy changes. We are hopeful that this will happen sooner 
rather than later.
If you interconnect with either of us and believe that you are experiencing any routing issues potentially related to 
this new policy, please feel free to reach out to either:
    - noc@workonline.africa
    - peering () seacom mu
Workonline Communications and SEACOM hope that this move encourages the rest of the ISP community around the world to 
ramp up their deployment of RPKI ROV and begin dropping Invalid routes. We appreciate the work that AT&T and others 
have carried out in the same vein.
In the mean time, we are happy to answer any questions you may have about our deployments.
Thanks,
Mark Tinka (SEACOM) & Ben Maddison (Workonline Communications).