[144164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Sun Sep 4 07:25:48 2011
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 11:24:38 +0000
In-Reply-To: <m2mxek1v78.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 4, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> Will the benefits of security - no more YouTube incidents, etc. - be perc=
eived as worth having one's routing at the whim of an non-operational admin=
istrative monopoly?
Given recent events in SSL CA-land, how certain are we that the putative se=
curity benefits are all that great? Not to mention the near-certainty of a=
BGP version of 'PROTECT IP', once the mechanisms are in place.
Same applies to DNSSEC, of course.
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