[107869] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: LoA (Letter of Authorization) for Prefix Filter Modification?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Sep 16 10:25:03 2008
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:24:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Christian Koch <christian@broknrobot.com>
In-Reply-To: <c93a55220809160702w74546386te6eb91c52f1b93e1@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "Rodriguez, Mauricio" <Mauricio.Rodriguez@fpl.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Christian Koch wrote:
> I dont mind, i think it is another good step towards 'good filtering'
> but...i think the PITA part is
> downstream 'clueless' customers, who may need an explanation on prefix
> hijacking and the state
> of the internet today, and that these are all just combined efforts to
> minimize the risk of accepting allocations
> that don't belong to you.
IMO, it's just an illusion of added security and is really just CYA for
the provider. When I fax TWTelecom an LOA that a customer faxed to me,
how does TWTelecom verify the authenticity of that LOA? I doubt they try.
I suspect it's just filed, and will only be pulled out if the
advertisement is challenged by some 3rd party.
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