[61195] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Aug 25 19:44:58 2003
In-Reply-To: <20030825230805.GA87770@scylla.towardex.com>
Cc: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:41:34 -0400
To: Haesu <haesu@towardex.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Monday, 25 August 2003, at 19:08PM, Haesu wrote:
> You ARE correct. If everyone employs IRR and put explicit filters
> everywhere,
> it'd be the perfect world..
... if everybody used the IRR to build explicit filters everywhere, if
everybody kept their objects in the IRR up-to-date, and if there was
some appropriate authorisation scheme in place to allow you to trust
the data in the IRR implicitly, it'd be a perfect world.
The IRR is currently a reasonable tool to use to avoid listening to
routes which are advertised by mistake from peers who populate the IRR
accurately. It's not a reasonable tool for avoiding maliciously bogus
routes, since sticking maliciously bogus information in the IRR is
trivial.
Joe
