[members-discuss] Draft Activity Plan 2021 - RPKI development

+1 on this aswell.

I have been operating validators for a few years now in production at
various companies, and I see no point to keep the RIPE Validator stack
alive. Even with significant improvements to the code i don't see that we
can "save" it and make it a viable choice going forward for real production
enviroements, i dont think that RIPE is the right place to develop a
replacement either.. Discontinue the support for the software as suggested
on Jan 1st 2021. And then move the full suggested budget over to the
operational department of RIPE NCC, strengthen the operations and scale
around the RPKI CA. The RPKI CA, for RIPE and for others, plays a MAJOR
role as critical internet infrastructure. This is services that needs
Oncall 24/7 support, testing-enviroments, scaled out infrastructure,
thoughtful crypto-implementations and other such things, nothing of this
comes cheap and we might even need more budget allocated for this in the
future.


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Best Regards
Fredrik Korsbäck
Amazon Web Services (but speaking for myself in this context)

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 6:01 PM Aaron A. Glenn <ripe at aagico.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020, at 16:21, Gert Doering wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 01:33:43PM +0000, Erik Bais wrote:
> > > I would like to see further development of the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator
> discontinued as of Jan. 1st 2021.
> >
> > This.
> >
> > When we looked at possible software options for our RPKI validator, we
> > compared performance, memory, robustness, agility of development, and
> > this all concluded in "this was nice as a demonstration vehicle, but I
> do
> > not want to run it near a any production system, ever".
>
> This is a common refrain I have heard and experienced first hand. I would
> like to also add my voice to the suggestion of discontinuing (significant)
> software development costs in relation to the RPKI validator.
>
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