[routing-wg] 2019-08 Review Phase (RPKI ROAs for Unallocated and Unassigned RIPE NCC Address Space)

Job Snijders wrote on 03/03/2020 18:41:
> Let me rephrase: what is the cost to the community of no
> implementation of 2019-08 at all?
> 
> [...] but if it
> boils down either using the RPKI for this or nothing, the latter
> option is what I support.

Pretty much that.

They've made it clear that the costs will be substantial, including:

- duplication of the entire RPKI infrastructure
- 6m wall clock time for some of the software team
- additional internal / external processes + documentation

This isn't a small undertaking - it's substantial. Set against that, the 
benefit to the proposal is marginal at best, and harmful in some 
important respects.

On top of that, it isn't reasonable for people to hit the RIPE NCC with 
requests to do more and more ground work on an impact analysis for 
proposals where it's far from clear that's any consensus to start with.

Nick