[107870] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: LoA (Letter of Authorization) for Prefix Filter Modification?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Koch)
Tue Sep 16 10:33:56 2008
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:33:42 -0400
From: "Christian Koch" <christian@broknrobot.com>
To: "Jon Lewis" <jlewis@lewis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0809161022120.5503@soloth.lewis.org>
Cc: "Rodriguez, Mauricio" <Mauricio.Rodriguez@fpl.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
good point... :)
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
> 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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