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Re: Securing the BGP or controlling it?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny McPherson)
Mon May 10 18:27:36 2010

From: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>
In-Reply-To: <4BE82BAC.2010509@foobar.org>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:26:39 -0600
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On May 10, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> 
> this is a matter of risk analysis.  No secure routing means we'll continue
> to see the occasional high profile outage which is dealt with very quickly.

If 3 weeks (e.g., the recent 'i root w/China incident) is "very 
quickly" then we're operating on different timescales.

> My gut instinct tells me that secure routing and the rpki venture well into
> the realm of negative returns. 

I believe 'sucks less' falls into the realm of positive, so here
we disagree.

-danny





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