[56338] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Mon Mar 3 13:05:42 2003
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 19:05:13 +0100
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: bmanning@karoshi.com
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <200303031741.h23HfCL23430@karoshi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On maandag, maa 3, 2003, at 18:41 Europe/Amsterdam,
bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
>>> what is not functioning properly?
>> Determining who is authorized to announce a certain block of IP
>> address
>> space.
> no protocol is going to help with this problem. its a
> social engineering issue, not a technical issue.
I really don't see this.
If we assume that the RIRs have authorative data on who holds what
address space (which is sort of true for recent or well-mainained
assignments) there is still a lot of glue necessary to make that into a
"this route is ok" or "this route is not ok" decision when processing
routing updates.
