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Re: do not filter your customers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shane Amante)
Sat Feb 25 01:29:23 2012

From: Shane Amante <shane@castlepoint.net>
In-Reply-To: <m2aa47ohys.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:28:15 -0700
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Feb 24, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Solving for route leaks is /the/ "killer app" for BGPSEC.
>=20
> as would be solving world hunger, war, bad cooking, especially bad
> cooking.
>=20
> route leaks, as much as i understand them
>  o are indeed bad ops issues
>  o are not security per se
>  o are a violation of business relationshiops
>  o and 20 years of fighting them have not given us any significant
>    increase in understanding, formal definition, or prevention.
>=20
> i would love to see progress on the route leak problem.  i do not
> confuddle it with security.


So, it is not OK for traffic to be /intentionally/ diverted through a =
malevolent AS, but it is OK for traffic to be /unintentionally/ diverted =
through a (possibly) malevolent AS?  Who's to judge the security =
exposure[1] of the latter is not identical (or, worse) than the former?

-shane

[1] dropped traffic, traffic analysis, etc.=20=


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