[136007] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3's IRR Database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jan 31 15:54:31 2011
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:53:28 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D46D22C.3070606@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> well, i am not sure you want to discard it. this is where the op has to
>> make a decision. in a world of partial deployment and ops and customers
>> still learning how to deal with this stuff, should it be discarded?
>
> I agree and definitely understand the turnup viewpoint. However, RPKI is
> useless if we don't discard invalid routes which are more specific than
> valid covering routes. local pref doesn't override prefix length
> decisions. Hijacks will continue to occur unless we issue discards... at
> some point.
i think that is how i would run my network. but those concerned about
*any* change, might prefer being vulnerable to the youtube accident. we
all have choices.
randy
