Extra alert information for the "ASPA authorization granted" alert
This alert has generated when an ASPA authorization involving your network has been created
This would indicate that a customer of yours has added your network to their allowed providers/upstream list.
They may be doing this because the creating the ASPA objects/authorizations for the first time.
If the networking in question is not a known customer of yours, you may wish to inquire with the network on why they had decided to add your network to their providers list.
This would indicate that you have added a object/authorization from your own network using your RIR’s RPKI dashboard.
RPKI ASPA is a relatively new capability of the RPKI ecosystem that is currently being rolled out across the internet, the idea is that it should provide a better form of control over who is supposed to be providing connectivity to networks one of the main goals of this technology is to try and prevent as many route leaks as possible.
ASPA objects/authorizations can only be made by the network that is impacted by them. Meaning that a network can only specify it’s own providers and not it’s customers.