[Xorp-hackers] RPKI and XORP

[Ben Greear]

On 11/29/2010 03:34 AM, Arturo Servin wrote:
>
> Myself or one of the developers that work with me could do some work on this, but definitely we would need some support from the community to learn about the
> APIs and the architecture of XORP.

I should be able to help with that.

I plan to start some work on xorp this week if all goes well (making it easier to (re)load configuration
files), so hopefully I'll start remembering the code a bit more :)

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Best wishes,
> -as
>
>
> On 22 Nov 2010, at 16:39, Fred Bauer wrote:
>
>> Likewise. And since I'm at Cisco now, there would probably be a conflict-of-interest. Is there someone else on the list that can take this on?
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com <mailto:greearb at candelatech.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 11/22/2010 06:23 AM, Arturo Servin wrote:
>>     > Hello,
>>     >
>>     > My name is Arturo Servin and I am working in LACNIC (one of the 5
>>     > Regional Internet Registries).
>>     >
>>     > In the RIR we are working in developing the software for RPKI (Resource
>>     > PKI) that will certify Internet Resources (IPs and ASs). Our software
>>     > will create and sign certificates that will be used by routers to verify
>>     > the origin of the route. I do not want to extend too much on the topic
>>     > but you can check the IETF work on:
>>     >
>>     > https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/sidr/
>>     >
>>     > Now, there are not many implementations in router vendors to use RPKI
>>     > (We are only aware of some Cisco software). We think that it would be
>>     > very interesting to see RPKI routing protocol (rtr
>>     > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr/) working in
>>     > Open Source implementations, we have recently contacted Quagga and BIRD
>>     > dev teams (not very successfully) and now we are contacting you.
>>     > Unfortunately we do not have many resources (in LACNIC) to work
>>     > ourselves on a developing RPKI for an OpenSource implementation in a
>>     > full time basis, but we would really like to work with some of you
>>     > sharing our expertise in RPKI and to contribute some code too (at least
>>     > a bit).
>>     >
>>     > Are you interested in developing RPKI in XORP?
>>
>>     I cannot speak for others, but I don't have time to work on this
>>     in any detail.
>>
>>     I will be happy to accept patches and at least do enough testing
>>     to make sure they don't break existing features.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Ben
>>
>>     >
>>     > Any comments?
>>     >
>>     > Regards,
>>     > -Arturo Servin
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
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