In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .com>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> certified validation of prefix ownership (and path, as has been >> pointed out) would be great. it's clearly a laudable goal and seemed >> like the right way to go. but right now, no one is doing it. the >> rfcs that's i've found have all expired. and the conversation about >> it has reached the point where people seem to have stopped even >> disagreeing about how to do it. in short, it's as dead as dns-sec. >> so what are we do do in the meantime? > >Perhaps people should stop trying to have these >operational discussions in the IETF and take the >discussions to NANOG where network operators gather.
We have tried, of course; see, for example, NANOG 28 (Salt Lake City). There was no more consensus at NANOG than in the IETF... --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb