Hi Bart,
We are pleased to announce that we have published the source code used by the RIPE NCC for the RPKI back-end (the RPKI core) under the 3-Clause BSD licence on Github: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/rpki-core
The RPKI core is the RIPE NCC's software for creating and maintaining RPKI objects based on the registry's current status and publishing these in the repositories.
Great to hear and congratulations to the RIPE NCC for their decision 😊
We encountered several challenges while preparing this project for an open- source release. The main challenges were that the system uses proprietary elements that were part of the revision history and cannot be made public. Furthermore, it was not possible to review all historic commits. We plan to present our challenges while open-sourcing this project at RIPE 84.
That sounds most interesting! Would you like to share all of this at one of the plenary sessions or you'd rather prefer a slot at the opensource wg? Best regards and have a nice start in the week! Marcos