What is RPKI?

Resource Public Key Infrastructure is a framework to ensure and IP and an ASN are authorized to be announced on the Internet and deploy origin validation to reject invalid BGP announcements.

How does validation work?

What is RTR?

Router-to-router protocol is a method of communicating the validated routes to a network device.

How does GoRTR work?

What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is a Content Delivery Network serving approximately 10% of web requests. RPKI deployment at Cloudflare started around July/August 2018. The company validates BGP announcements using the data from the five Regional Internet Registries (Afrinic, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE) and offers a prefix list signed cached in 150+ datacenters and a software called GoRTR to verify the list and distributes it the connected devices.