Securing the BGP or controlling it?

Mon May 10 22:35:23 UTC 2010

I don't suspect we'd need a central authority for that.  I'm sure it only enough for you traffic to pass with anyones national boundry to be 'at risk' of such things

-jim
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-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at cox.net>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:52:34 
To: <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Securing the BGP or controlling it?

On 5/10/2010 15:31, Anton Kapela wrote:
> 
> On May 9, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
> 
>> http://skunkpost.com/news.sp?newsId=2327
> 
> "Just how fragile is the internet?"
> 
> Rhetoric, much?
> 
> Interestingly, the article misses interception and other non-outage
> potentials due to (sub) prefix hijacking.

At the risk of seeming to be a conspiracy theorist, I am worried that
with "Central Authority" we might not have "hijacking" but "rerouting
for inspection and correction".

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