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Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Sat Apr 28 08:03:48 2012

Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:59:39 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <17627_1335610545_4F9BCCB1_17627_2198_1_m2ehr89nqg.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
 North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 03:04:07AM -0700,
 Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote 
 a message of 9 lines which said:

> draft-bates-bgp4-nlri-orig-verif-00.txt was '98
> 
> and we dropped it for good reasons

Unfortunately, we have RFCs for good ideas but bad ideas never get
documented by the IETF (one of the few exceptions is RFC 3197). So,
bad ideas keep coming back and back again.

Would you explain in a few words why this was a bad idea? I personally
find Rover a very interesting idea, and which seems realistic.


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