From: Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Subject: Re: rpki-client: remove Ghostbusters Record (RFC 6493) support
To: Job Snijders <job@openbsd.org>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:20:21 +0100

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