[14549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: route ingress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Jan 6 16:34:31 1998
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 13:23:47 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Sean M. Doran wrote:
> Vadim Antonov ?avg@pluris.com? writes:
>
> ? The only real solution is strong cryptographical authentication of
> ? the ownership of routing prefixes. For some reason i do not see
> ? any serious work in that direction being done.
>
> This would be much easier if we had a bottom-up
> hierarchical addressing structure rather than the
> current top-down one.
I quite agree with that (though i'm not convinced that "bottom->top"
allocation combined with recursive NATting is the best architecture).
However, this does not preclude doing authentication with the current
routing system.
--vadim
