On May 28, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > third, rsync's dependencies on routing (as in the RPKI+ROA case) are not > circular (which i think was david conrad's point but i'll drag it to here.)
Nope. My point was that anything that uses the Internet to fetch the data (including rsync) has a circular dependency on routing. It's just a question of timing. > ROVER expects that we will query for policy at the instant of need. Might want to review https://ripe64.ripe.net/presentations/57-ROVER_RIPE_Apr_2012.pdf, particularly the slide entitled "Avoid a Cyclic Dependency". As far as I can tell, ROVER is simply Yet Another RPKI Access Method like rsync and bittorrent with its own positives and negatives. Regards, -drc
