[191718] in North American Network Operators' Group
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.