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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-weight: 400;">Hello everyone,</span></div>
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Authorisations (ROAs) as a potential replacement to LOAs. Separate to this (and unknowing of Aftab's research), I had started a discussion on the RPKI Community guild on Discord (<a href="https://discord.gg/9jYcqpbdRE" target="_blank" id="OWA9318b7e9-d0e2-590e-2fa4-a63196b63bc4" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin: 0px;">https://discord.gg/9jYcqpbdRE</a>)
discussing the usage of ROAs instead of LOAs.</span></div>
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document granting permission for third parties to take specific actions regarding network resources or services. In the service provider industry, its primary use is for advertising address resources (IPv4/v6 and ASN). When an organization intends to announce
its IP prefixes through its own or a transit provider's ASN to the global internet, it typically needs to provide an LOA to their transit provider, confirming their custodianship or ownership of the resources.</span></div>
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Authorization," is part of a security framework designed to validate the authenticity of internet routing information. It involves a digitally signed object that specifies which Autonomous Systems (ASes) are permitted to announce specific IP address prefixes.</span></div>
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