RPKI, the IRR, route origin validation and the work of keeping Africa's routing table trustworthy.
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RPKI Signed Checklists (RSCs). Learn how RSCs allow network operators to securely sign and verify any digital object, enhancing trust and automation in the internet resource management ecosystem.
Explore the 2025 year-in-review for the NRO RPKI Program. Learn about key milestones in routing security, including new Trust Anchor (TA) specifications, the roadmap for ASPA implementation by 2026, and consolidated…
The Number Resource Organization (NRO) has published a new reference page to help network operators and other members of the Internet technical community learn how to create Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) through…
This document describes Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) related best practices and lessons learned, providing general recommendations aimed at supporting the implementation and operation of RPKI.
The NRO RPKI Program aims to provide a more consistent and uniformly secure, resilient and reliable RPKI service. For 2025, the RPKI Steering Group, which includes RPKI experts from the five RIRs, set out to work on two…
Authored by: Sofia Silva Berenguer, RPKI Program Manager, NRO Earlier this year we launched the NRO RPKI Program and we shared information about the program’s purpose and the outcomes that were guiding our efforts. One…
Authored by: Sofia Silva Berenguer, RPKI Program Manager, NRO A few months ago we shared the outcomes that are guiding the work that we are doing as part of the NRO RPKI Program . We mentioned that we would like to know…
Authored by: Sofia Silva Berenguer, RPKI Program Manager, NRO In our previous blog post , we introduced the new NRO RPKI Program and what we are aiming to achieve: “[…] the NRO RPKI Program aims to provide a more…
Introduction Welcome back to our journey into the realm of Internet routing security! In our previous article, " Securing Internet Routing with Cryptography: Quick Introduction to RPKI ," we delved into the foundational…
Authored by: Musa Stephen Honlue, Project Manager and Transformation Lead, AFRINIC LinkedIn | Twitter Demystifying RPKI: Securing Internet Routing with Cryptography In the intricate tapestry of the digital world, where…
Authored by: Sofia Silva Berenguer, RPKI Program Manager, NRO As a result of the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Strategic Review Process, which started in 2022, the NRO agreed to work towards providing a robust…
ARIN recently issued a final reminder on the imminent retirement of the ARIN non-authenticated Internet Routing Registry (IRR), which is planned for Monday, 4 April 2022, at 16:00 GMT. Click here (…
Our second webinar on securing Internet routing for 2021 is on the topic of Resource Public Key Infrastructure(RPKI). RPKI facilitates the validation of routing information by other network operators on a global scale…
Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is the way to cryptographically sign records that associate a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route announcement with the correct originating Autonomous System Number (ASN). But…
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[ Arabic | Portuguese ] AFRINIC is pleased to announce that its RPKI now supports the RPKI Repository Delta Protocol (RFC 8182). RRDP is an alternative repository access protocol to the existing RSYNC repository. With…
AFRINIC has released a new version of its Routing Registry service . This new version has removed the need for the ASN holder to authorise route or route6 objects. Previously, route and route6 objects had to be…
We are pleased to announce the publication of a guide on AFRINIC’s Internet Routing Registry. AFRINIC Members who use the RIPE NCC database and who are impacted by the upcoming changes in the out-of-region objects in…
RIPE NCC will be making some changes to their Internet Routing Registry (IRR) which may affect AFRINIC resource holders effective September 2018
September 16 2017 - We are pleased to announce that AFRINIC has gone live with an “all resource” RPKI TA (trust anchor) as planned on September 14, 2017. This change has no effect on any existing RPKI validation. You…
