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<font face="Tahoma">Hello all.<br>
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In November 2018 during the ZAPF (South Africa Peering Forum)
meeting in Cape Town, 3 major ISP's in Africa announced that they
would enable RPKI's ROV (Route Origin Validation) and the dropping
of Invalid routes as part of an effort to clean up the BGP
Internet, on the 1st April, 2019.<br>
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On the 1st of April, Workonline Communications (AS37271) enabled
ROV and the dropping of Invalid routes. This applies to all eBGP
sessions for IPv4 and IPv6.<br>
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On the 5th of April, SEACOM (AS37100) enabled ROV and the dropping
of Invalid routes. This applies to all eBGP sessions with public
peers, private peers and transit providers, both for IPv4 and
IPv6. eBGP sessions toward downstream customers will follow in 3
months from now.<br>
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We are still standing by for the 3rd ISP to complete their
implementation, and we are certain they will communicate with the
community accordingly.<br>
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Please note that for the legal reasons previously discussed on
various fora, neither Workonline Communications nor SEACOM are
utilising the ARIN TAL. As a result, any routes covered only by a
ROA issued under the ARIN TAL will fall back to a status of Not
Found. Unfortunately, this means that ARIN members will not see
any improved routing security for their prefixes on our networks
until this is resolved. We will each re-evaluate this decision if
and when ARIN's policy changes. We are hopeful that this will
happen sooner rather than later.<br>
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If you interconnect with either of us and may be experiencing any
routing issues potentially related to this new policy, please feel
free to reach out to:<br>
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- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:noc@workonline.africa" moz-do-not-send="true">noc@workonline.africa</a><br>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:peering@seacom.mu" moz-do-not-send="true">peering@seacom.mu</a><br>
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Workonline Communications and SEACOM hope that this move
encourages the rest of the ISP community around the world to ramp
up their deployment of RPKI ROV and dropping of Invalid routes, as
we appreciate the work that AT&T have carried out in the same
vein.<br>
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In the mean time, we are happy to answer any questions you may
have about our deployments. Thanks.<br>
<br>
Mark Tinka (SEACOM) & Ben Maddison (Workonline
Communications).<br>
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