Re: Secure BGP (Was: YouTube IP Hijacking)

2008-02-25 Thread Jeroen Massar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Pushing this task off to a server that does not have packet-forwarding duties also allows for flexible interfaces to network management systems including the possibility of asking for human confirmation before announcing a new route. There is no (direct)

Secure BGP (Was: YouTube IP Hijacking)

2008-02-25 Thread michael.dillon
Right. Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone is malicious.And the RIRs and the big ISPs are *generally* more clueful than the little guys and the newcomers. Note also that secured BGP limits the kinds of mistakes people can make. If I have a certificate from my RIR for

Re: Secure BGP (Was: YouTube IP Hijacking)

2008-02-25 Thread Sandy Murphy
Is there some way of deploying a solution like Secure BGP without actually requiring that it go into the routers? The IETF SIDR wg (shameless plug as I'm wg co-chair) is working on a way to say with strong assurance who holds what prefixes, and therefore who can authorize the origination of what