Joining MANRS

AS202585 is now a MANRS participant.

MANRS — Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security — is a community effort to make the global routing table a little less chaotic. The idea is simple: if enough networks filter incorrect announcements, publish RPKI, and keep their contact information current, route leaks and hijacks have a harder time spreading.

For a small one-person network this isn’t a big operational change. I’ve been running strict RPKI ROV for a while, IRR objects and ROAs are in place, and the PeeringDB entry is kept up to date. Joining MANRS is mostly putting a public name on practices I already consider table stakes.

That still matters. Routing security only works if the people around you do it too. A prefix from a hobby AS can leak just as loudly as one from a tier-1. So if you run a network and you’re already doing the right things, sign up. If you’re not there yet, the implementation guide is aimed at stub networks and small providers — which is exactly what this ranch is.

You’ll find AS202585 on the MANRS Network Operators participant list.