• If you want to know how Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) evolved throughout 2025, read on! • 🙂 In this post, I’ll share some RPKI statistics, summarize highlights from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards development process, and reflect on emerging trends. • Year-to-year growth of the distributed RPKI database A straightforward method to compare 2024 and 2025 is to examine the absolute numbers. • Table 1 was constructed using data collected by RPKIViews.org between 1 January and 31 December 2025, with the ARIN, AFRINIC, APNIC, LACNIC, and RIPE NCC Trust Anchors (TAs). • 2024 | 2025 (diff) | | Total validated cache size (KB) | 767,245 | 923,058 (+20%) | Total number of files (object count) | 415,384 | 493,707 (+19%) | Wall time validation run (seconds) | 46 | 35 (-23%) | Wall time without outlier CA (seconds) | 26 | 33 (+27%) | Publication servers (FQDNs): | 53 | 60 (+13%) | Certification Authorities | 44,935 | 49,721 (+11%) | Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) | 280,692 | 344,209 (+23%) | Uniq Validated ROA Payloads | 639,900 | 787,737 (+23%) | Average ROAIPAddresses per ROA | 2.3 | 1.8 (-22%) | Unique origin ASNs in ROAs | 47,282 | 52,661 (+11%) | IPv4 addresses covered | 2,726,513,768 | 2,783,187,105 (+2%) | Uniq IPv4 addresses covered | 1,658,281,248 | 1,818,913,944 (+10%) | IPv6 addresses covered | 17,392 * 1030 | 18,684 * 1030 (+7%) | Uniq IPv6 addresses covered | 15,139 * 1030 | 16,384 * 1030 (+8%) | Unique ASPA Customer ASIDs | 87 | 55

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  • Happy New Year! If you want to know how Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) evolved throughout 2025, read on! 🙂 In this post, I’ll share some RPKI statistics, summarize highlights from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards development process, and reflect on emerging trends. Year-to-year growth of the distributed RPKI database A straightforward method to compare 2024 and 2025 is to examine the absolute numbers. Table 1 was constructed using data collected by RPKIViews.org between 1 January and 31 December 2025, with the ARIN, AFRINIC, APNIC, LACNIC, and RIPE NCC Trust Anch

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