Hi Mike,

This assumes the ISP manages the customer's CPE or home router, which is often 
not the case. Adding such ACLs to the upstream device, operated by the ISP, is 
not always easy or feasible.

It would make sense for most ISPs to have egress filtering at the edge (transit 
and peering points) to filter out packets that should not originate from the 
ISP's ASN, although this does not prevent spoofing between points in the ISP's 
network.

Andrew

NB: My personal opinion and not official communiqué of Charter.


Andrew White
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Charter Communications
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-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 3:33 PM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: BCP38 adoption "incentives"?

It would be incredibly low impact to have the residential CPE block any source 
address not assigned by the ISP. Done. 




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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Stephen Satchell" <l...@satchell.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 7:31:24 AM
Subject: BCP38 adoption "incentives"? 

Does anyone know if any upstream and tiered internet providers include in their 
connection contracts a mandatory requirement that all directly-connected 
routers be in compliance with BCP38? 

Does anyone know if large ISPs like Comcast, Charter, or AT&T have put in place 
internal policies requiring retail/business-customer-aggregating routers to be 
in compliance with BCP38? 

Does any ISP, providing business Internet connectivity along with a block of IP 
addresses, include language in their contracts that any directly connected 
router must be in compliance with BCP38? 

I've seen a lot of moaning and groaning about how BCP38 is pretty much being 
ignored. Education is one way to help, but that doesn't hit anyone in the 
wallet. You have to motivate people to go out of their way to *learn* about 
BCP38; most business people are too busy with things that make them money to be 
concerned with "Internet esoterica" 
that doesn't add to the bottom line. You have to make their ignorance SUBTRACT 
from the bottom line. 

Contracts, properly enforced, can make a huge dent in the problem of
BCP38 adoption. At a number of levels. 

Equipment manufacturers not usually involved in this sort of thing (home and 
SOHO market) would then have market incentive to provide equipment at the low 
end that would provide BCP38 support. Especially equipment manufacturers that 
incorporate embedded Linux in their products. They can be creative in how they 
implement their product; let creativity blossom. 

I know, I know, BCP38 was originally directed at Internet Service Providers at 
their edge to upstreams. I'm thinking that BCP38 needs to be in place at any 
point -- every point? -- where you have a significant-sized collection of 
systems/devices aggregated to single upstream connections. Particular 
systems/devices where any source address can be generated and propagated -- 
including compromised desktop computers, compromised light bulbs, compromised 
wireless routers, compromised you-name-it. 

(That is one nice thing about NAT -- the bad guys can't build spoofed packets. 
They *can* build, um, "other" packets...which is a different subject entirely.) 

(N.B.: Now you know why I'm trying to get the simplest possible definition of 
BCP38 into words. The RFCs don't contain "executive
summaries".) 

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