[126232] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Sun May 9 11:55:24 2010
Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 10:54:46 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <308599F2-201F-4C34-862B-4E4B6BF4C875@cs.columbia.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 5/9/2010 08:32, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/08/business/AP-US-TEC-Fragile-Internet.html
>
> It's a pretty reasonable article, too, though I don't know that I
> agree about the "simplicity of the routing system"....
I worry about the implications in the article in the environment of
recent news....
IRS (or FTC, or FCC) maintains a hosts.txt that everybody uses instead
of BGP?
I wonder how telephone calls are routed? (I know how they were in the
60's and 70's--I really don't know how the current system works.
And when I drive someplace, I do indeed go by the signs I see, which are
not erected by a central authority, as I move along. (I don't have a
route from here to Fairbanks, Alaska, but my MCA shows one from here to
Council Bluffs, Iowa, and from there there are several I might use,
depending on what signs I see ("Warning, I29 N closed at Mondamin due to
flooding") when I get there.)
I'm sorry, but I am very afraid of "Central Authority".
--
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Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting
the vote.
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