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Re: Request for comment -- BCP38
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Sep 26 10:20:31 2016
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From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 07:11:42 -0700
To: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>,
North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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No -- BCP38 only prescribes filtering outbound to ensure that no packets leave your network with IP source addresses which are not from within your legitimate allocation.
- ferg
On September 26, 2016 7:05:49 AM PDT, Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net> wrote:
>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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