RPKI adoption (was: Re: Corporate Identity Theft: Azuki, LLC -- AS13389, 216.179.128.0/17)

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

On 13 Aug 2019, at 9:28 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg () tristatelogic com<mailto:rfg () tristatelogic com>> wrote:
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The last time I looked, RPKI adoption was sitting at around a grand total
of 15% worldwide.  Ah yes, here it is...

  https://rpki-monitor.antd.nist.gov/

I've asked many people and many companies why adoption remains so low, and
why their own companies aren't doing RPKI.  I've gotten the usual assortment
of utterly lame excuses, but the one that I have had the hardest time
trying to counter is the one where a network engineer says to me "Well,
ya know, we were GOING to do that, but then ARIN... unlike the other four
regional authorities... demanded that we sign some silly thing indemnifying
them in case of.... something.

Interestingly enough, those same indemnification clauses are in the registration services agreement that they already 
signed but apparently they were not an issue at all when requesting IP address space or receiving a transfer.
You might want want to ask them why they are now a problem when they weren’t before (Also worth noting that many of 
these ISP's own contracts with their customers have rather similar indemnification clauses.)

Even so, we at ARIN are in the midst of a Board-directed review of the RPKI legal framework to see if any improvements 
can be made <https://www.arin.net/vault/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_43/PDF/PPM/curran_rpki.pdf>  – I will provide 
further updates once it is completed.

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers