(my originaly wouldn't have made it to the list... so here it is again
from the right src-addr)

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Chris Morrow <morr...@ops-netman.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 02/18/11 12:11, John Leslie wrote:
>> Russ White <r...@cisco.com> wrote:
>>> To: Christopher Morrow <christopher.mor...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> * Is an Autonomous System (AS) authorized to originate an IP prefix
>>>> * Is the AS-Path represented in the route the same as the path
>>>>   through which the route update traveled
>>>
>>> As we've been discussing on the list --I don't think this is a good
>>> goal. The first goal should be to determine what it is we want to show
>>> about the AS Path in relation to other things, and then work on filling
>>> that goal.
>>
>>    The question I think we ought to care about is:
>>
>> Is the NLRI from this peer more or less likely than some other peer's NLRI
>> to represent what a legitimate originator would want me to see?
>>
>>    All I really have control over is which peer I send to (and thus
>> which NLRI I forward to my peers). I have no control over what happens
>> to the packets after than first forwarding step.
>
> we can't (and shouldn't conflate here) packet security with routing
> (routing data, really) security.
>
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