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Request for comment -- BCP38

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Satchell)
Mon Sep 26 10:05:53 2016

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To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 07:05:49 -0700
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Is this an accurate thumbnail summary of BCP38 (ignoring for the moment 
the issues of multi-home), or is there something I missed?

>     The basic philosophy of BCP38 boils down to two axioms:
>
>         Don't let the "bad stuff" into your router
>         Don't let the "bad stuff" leave your router
>
>     The original definition of "bad stuff" is limited to source-
>     address grooming both inbound and outbound.  I've expanded on the
>     original definition by including rule generation to control
>     broadcast address abuse.

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