[32231] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Trusting BGP sessions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Diaz)
Tue Nov 14 23:25:20 2000
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:23:20 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: David Diaz <davediaz@iwcinc.net>
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Yes.
At 12:29 PM -0800 11/14/00, Sean Donelan wrote:
>On Mon, 13 November 2000, David Diaz wrote:
>> The cabal makes jokes "Officially there is no cabal."
>> In reality the fact is that peering is a trust event. You are
>
>Peering is a business decision. It is not an engineering decision
>nor a trust event.
>
>Technically, can a peer BGP session do any more or less damage to
>your network than a customer BGP session? The protocol is identical.
