[140261] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat May 7 01:33:26 2011
Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 07:33:36 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>
In-Reply-To: <3C9D1E48-D9A2-44D4-B783-D4F4C26A9CD1@tcb.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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>>> It's perhaps worth noting that there is work in the IETF to
>>> recommend that every prefix originated as part of an anycast cloud
>>> uses a unique origin AS (see
>>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-grow-unique-origin-as-00>). I'm
>>> not personally convinced of the arguments in the draft, but
>>> mentioning it in this thread seems reasonable.
>> I'm also not convinced of the arguments in the draft, since it argues
>> that it would be a best-practice
> 'A', not 'the', for the reasons conveyed in the draft (e.g., control
> plane discriminator, RPKI foundations, etc..).
danny,
could you explain why this has anything to do with the rpki and origin
validation?
randy
