Original Message -
From: "Joel M. Halpern"
To: "Randy Bush"
Cc: "t.petch" ;
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:25 PM
> Unfortunately, that change shifts things just enough to miss an
> important part of what I was hoping to achieve.
> While it is true that we can not know why anyone
the current, yet to be pushed, text is
3.1 A BGPsec design must allow the receiver of a BGP announcement
to determine, to a strong level of certainty, that the received
PATH attribute accurately represents the sequence of eBGP
exchanges that propagated the NLRI from
I agree that intent can not be known.
Which is why I had asked that the motivation / intent related text be
included in the introduction, not in the requirements. I was not trying
to change the requirements. Rather, I am asking that the document
include some context, to help the reader accur