[136018] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3's IRR Database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Jan 31 16:50:51 2011
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:49:28 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m239o8693m.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/31/2011 3:45 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> i have another half which fears that we have not completely connected
> the dots between the egyptian net shut off of their nets and the media
> interests who own the us government shutting off domain names without a
> court order.
>
I agree, which is why I had the alternative mechanism. It allows for the
best of both worlds, and if an RIR or government want to revoke an roa
AND advertise the route themselves with a valid roa, they could easily
have just advertised more specific routes to override the valid route.
Jack
