Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses

Mon Aug 25 23:41:34 UTC 2003

On Monday, 25 August 2003, at 19:08PM, Haesu wrote:

> You ARE correct. If everyone employs IRR and put explicit filters 
> everywhere,
> it'd be the perfect world..

... if everybody used the IRR to build explicit filters everywhere, if 
everybody kept their objects in the IRR up-to-date, and if there was 
some appropriate authorisation scheme in place to allow you to trust 
the data in the IRR implicitly, it'd be a perfect world.

The IRR is currently a reasonable tool to use to avoid listening to 
routes which are advertised by mistake from peers who populate the IRR 
accurately. It's not a reasonable tool for avoiding maliciously bogus 
routes, since sticking maliciously bogus information in the IRR is 
trivial.

Joe