* Laurent Dumont: > Wouldn't you want BCP38 policies to be as close as possible to the > traffic sources? Instead of creating more "fake" traffic?
Maybe as close as possible, but still without sacrificing source network attribution is sufficient. > And at the same time, partial filtering doesn't seem as a very > effective way to fight spoofed traffic on a large scale. That depends on the problems caused by spoofed traffic. My hunch is that non-policing networks emit a constant trickle of spoofed traffic which does not cause any problems, and that traffic can be used to detect lack of policing even without actual abuse of the spoofing capability.