[24377] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet failures over the next 3 years
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Wed Jun 23 02:28:19 1999
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:27:13 -0700
From: Tony Li <tony1@home.net>
To: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
Cc: Tim Wolfe <tim@clipper.net>, Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>,
nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> There have been a number of suggestions for in-band (i.e.
> within BGP or at least within router) authentication.
> I have not yet seen one with no disadvantages.
Nor should you expect one without disadvantages. There is a clear tradeoff here
between the quality of the authentication and the computational complexity.
Some leadership is needed in the ISP community to put a stake in the ground and
at least experiment with one of the alternatives.
Tony
