[RPKI-Deployers] fundraising a new RPKI validator - help wanted

[Fredrik Korsbäck]

On 2018-11-29 23:36, Job Snijders wrote:
> Hi team,
> 
> I'd like to hold each of you upside down and shake until some money
> comes out. The goal is to raise $20,000 USD to fund a new open-source
> RPKI validator.
> 
> What it boils down to is that RIPE NCC's validator is slowly dying (RIPE
> NCC's core business is not maintaining validators), which leaves us with
> only NLNetLab's Routinator. This is not healthy, we need multiple
> validators to exist.
> 
> My plan is to contract a developer & release a validator as part of the
> core OpenBSD system (just like openssh, openbgpd, opensmtpd, etc) - this
> provides us with a few interesting things:
> 
>     - from that moment on we can point at a BGP software stack that
>       ships by default *with* rpki origin validation capable software,
>       perhaps this inspires cisco & juniper
> 
>     - we'll have another validator which is lightweight, portable, and
>       written in a different language than the RIPE or NLNetLab's one.
> 
> My pitch is here:
> 
>     https://medium.com/@jobsnijders/a-proposal-for-a-new-rpki-validator-openbsd-rpki-client-1-15b74e7a3f65
> 
> If a few companies pitch in a few thousand USD each, we'll have a high
> quality RPKI validator within a few months! Sponsorship happens through
> invoices.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Job
> 

Shakedown duly noted.

I have a 5KUSD check with openbsdrpki written on it right here. Where to
send?

-- 
hugge