Securing the BGP or controlling it?

Mon May 10 22:41:00 UTC 2010

Ziad,

I agree, its unfortunate that so many people no longer require route registration.  Not that it would solve all the issues.  Tom School, Todd Underwood and I present some  work we did looking @ this @ nanog in LA a while back. Unfortunately we could never find time to take it to the next steps.

-jim

Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network

-----Original Message-----
From: Zaid Ali <zaid at zaidali.com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:32:47 
To: Thomas Magill<tmagill at providecommerce.com>; Franck Martin<franck at genius.com>; <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Securing the BGP or controlling it?

What we need (as operators) is to get better at ensuring that advertisements
are coming from the valid owner of said address space. What we don't need is
a separate governance model which I worry this article is trying to imply. I
still use RADB but I hear not every peer/provider checks there anymore? This
is hearsay so interested in other opinions.

As far as the mistakes pointed out in this article one can be assured that
these things are bound to happen. The youtube situation could have been
prevented if the peer opening a filter (and responsible for announcing out)
had reach to a system where the other peer's advertisement can be verified.
I don't think leaning on competency is a good way to go about solving this
problem, we need a system or model in place to ensure we have a trust and
verification system.

Zaid

On 5/10/10 9:54 AM, "Thomas Magill" <tmagill at providecommerce.com> wrote:

> All of the major providers I have worked with have required proof of
> 'ownership' of address space or an LoA from the registered holder of that
> space before they would allow advertisements from me, which are then filtered.
> Is this not the norm?  I can understand if they are talking about an operator
> making a mistake, but the article seems to imply that anyone running BGP can
> bring down the Internet...  I think any competent provider can easily
> eliminate this threat from customers.  Are there any types of penalties if an
> ISP is found to not be taking adequate precautions, other than the possible
> threat of losing business?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Franck Martin [mailto:franck at genius.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:48 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Securing the BGP or controlling it?
> 
> APNIC allows you to put your BGP data in the whois, so like this you have a
> third party verification tool on who is peering with who.
> 