On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 03:20:21PM +0100, Theo Buehler wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 01:14:45PM +0000, Job Snijders wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > This patchset removes support for validating and decoding Ghostbusters
> > Records (GBRs) in rpki-client. GBRs are specified in RFC 6493.
> > 
> > Support for GBRs in rpki-client was introduced roughly 5 years ago.
> > Since then, nobody published any GBRs except for myself and the author
> > of the GBR specification (with the latter entity's own vCard
> > publications never confirming to profile specified in RFC 6493).
> > 
> > GBRs were intended to enable RPKI CAs to convey contact information
> > through the RPKI itself. At first glance that might seem useful, but
> > operators already have a myriad of methods to exchange contact details:
> > RDAP, Whois, IRR, PeeringDB, IXP member portals, etc, etc.
> > 
> > I suspect that the name choosen for this technology didn't do its
> > deployment any favors: had it had been named "vCards in the RPKI",
> > everyone would've immediately understood what it is and what it is for,
> > but this silly cute name just isn't descriptive at all.
> > 
> > RFC 6493 probably should be assigned Historic status.
> > 
> > OK?
> 
> Yes, let's kill it. I came up with the exact same diff.
> 
> ok tb

I agree. 

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:wq Claudio