Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

[jgreco at ns.sol.net (Joe Greco)]

> To quote Bruce Schneier quoting an NSA maxim, attacks only get better;
> they never get worse.  We now have running code of one way to do this.
> I think most NANOG readers can see many more ways to do it.  A real
> solution will take years to deploy, but it will never happen if we
> don't start.  And we want to have the solution out there *before* we
> see serious attacks on BGP.
> 
> Again, thank you -- it was really nice work.

Seems like we *could* get a large part of the way there if people were
only checking the information in question.  While not the long-term fix
of being able to prove authorization to advertise space, simply requiring
a LOA at the edge, and requiring IRR further in, and keeping records of
what was advertised, would seem to be a worthwhile improvement on the
current state of affairs.  Total prevention is a very rough goal, so
making it more difficult, combined with being able to identify when 
someone did something bad, really ought to be a worthwhile interim goal,
and I've wondered for a long time why this isn't being done.

... JG
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