Re: [sidr] staging period discussion

2011-02-20 Thread Stephen Kent
Rob, Your reply did not contain any info that would cause me to change my mind about the staging period. I think we agree that the staging period cannot guarantee that all RPs have the new CA cert before the old data is replaced. What it can do is increase the likelihood that this will happen.

Re: [sidr] SIDR ReCharter - to capture/cover path validation work

2011-02-20 Thread Stephen Kent
At 1:06 PM -0500 2/18/11, Russ White wrote: ... Let me ask you something --does IPsec try to verify the path the packet takes, or the contents of the packet? If the right solution for IPsec is to validate the content of the packet, then why is the right solution for BGP to verify the path of the

Re: [sidr] SIDR ReCharter - to capture/cover path validation work

2011-02-20 Thread Russ White
... the semantic of BGP has never been that the AS Path is used for anything other than determining if the path is loop free. That assertion seems to ignore the fact that routing decisions often take into account path length. Are you saying that such decisions are not part of the semantics

Re: [sidr] SIDR ReCharter - to capture/cover path validation work

2011-02-20 Thread Ruediger Volk, Deutsche Telekom T-Com - TE141-P1
... the semantic of BGP has never been that the AS Path is used for anything other than determining if the path is loop free. That assertion seems to ignore the fact that routing decisions often take into account path length. Are you saying that such decisions are not part