Internet failures over the next 3 years

Wed Jun 23 06:27:13 UTC 1999

> There have been a number of suggestions for in-band (i.e.
> within BGP or at least within router) authentication.
> I have not yet seen one with no disadvantages.

Nor should you expect one without disadvantages.  There is a clear tradeoff here
between the quality of the authentication and the computational complexity.

Some leadership is needed in the ISP community to put a stake in the ground and
at least experiment with one of the alternatives.

Tony