[88285] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Fri Jan 27 11:54:55 2006
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: <Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:54:23 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Thus spake <Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com>
>> seems to me that certified validation of prefix ownership and as
>> path are the only real way out of these problems that does not
>> teach us the 42 reasons we use a *dynamic* protocol.
>
> Wouldn't a well-operated network of IRRs used by 95% of
> network operators be able to meet all three of your
> requirements?
We have such a database (used by Verio and others), but the Panix incident
happened anyway due to bit rot. We've got to find a way to fix the layer 8
problems before we can make improvements at layer 3.
S
Stephen Sprunk "Stupid people surround themselves with smart
CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with
K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin
