[144205] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Rexford)
Mon Sep 5 10:25:20 2011
From: Jennifer Rexford <jrex@CS.Princeton.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <C2BE4BC4-27AA-4171-802D-C863CDFB69D9@delong.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:24:42 -0400
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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> One could argue that rejecting routes which you previously had no way =
to
> know you should reject will inherently alter the routing system and =
that this
> is probably a good thing.
Good point. Also, "tie breaking" in favor of signed-and-verified routes =
over not-signed-and-verified routes does not necessarily affect your =
traffic "positively or negatively" -- rather, if you are letting an =
arbitrary final tie break make the decision anyway, you are arguably =
*neutral* about the outcome...
-- Jen=
