[152485] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rpki vs. secure dns?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue May 1 11:51:59 2012
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 15:51:15 +0000
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On May 1, 2012, at 10:31 PM, John Kristoff wrote:
> As Radia says in her book, we're probably stuck with BGP forever, but I f=
requently wonder if she is right in suggesting we could have done
> better by having a link state protocol instead.
At the time, link-state protocols weren't practical for the scale required =
- even today, it would be problematic.
Ideally, this would be very nice, but I just don't think it's practical, ev=
en today.
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