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

Hello Hans Petter and fellow members, 

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020, Erik Bais wrote:
> I would like to argue that further development of Proof of Concept software (the RPKI validator) isn't required anymore now that there are multiple open source tools available on the market. 
> 
> The RIPE NCC isn't a software development house .. and I don't recall the RIPE NCC has the planning to become one ... 
> I would like to see further development of the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator discontinued as of Jan. 1st 2021.

I completely agree.

On Fri, 25 Sep 2020, Gert Doering wrote:
> 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".

Yes, I agree with that, too. And: When looking to the current RIPE NCC RPKI
Validator status, the average time of about 87+ days to fix security issues
(based on #158, #159, #162, #232, #255 from ticket opening till closure) is
not what I would like to see near a production system either...as of this
moment some of the security issues are still unresolved!

Even if one of the current alternative RPKI validators would disappear for
whatever reason, I would nowadays not consider switching to the RIPE NCC
RPKI Validator, sorry.

I'm aware that I might not give enough credits to the RIPE NCC's internal
development team while there was a lack of other software...and I really
appreciate their past work, but I definitely would like to see the RIPE NCC
shift the focus from the validator software development towards the RPKI
infrastructure as soon as possible.


Kind regards

Robert Scheck

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