[ncc-announce] Resource Certification (RPKI) reaches 1000 LIR landmark

Congratulations, that is a major milestone!

Best Regards,
Randy

On 6/21/2012 4:56 AM, Alex Band wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Today, 18 months after launching the RIPE NCC Resource
> Certification (RPKI) service, the 1,000th LIR has requested a digital
> certificate for their Internet number resources. The service has come a
> long way, from a prototype developed in 2006 to a full production
> service in collaboration with the other Regional Internet Registries,
> aimed at making the RIR Registries more robust and BGP routing more secure.
>
> Resource Certification offers LIRs validatable proof of holdership.
> In addition, it allows LIRs to make cryptographically verifiable
> statements about which Autonomous Systems are authorised to originate
> the IP prefixes they hold. The toolset developed by the RIPE NCC to
> validate and use this data has been downloaded hundreds of times in the
> last months and is actively used by many organisations to make better
> BGP routing decisions.
>
> For more information, please visit:
> http://ripe.net/certification
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Alex Band
> Product Manager
> RIPE NCC