BGP to doom us all

Fri Feb 28 22:23:44 UTC 2003

Bruce,

  I agree, while we all need to 'do the right thing' and only announce what
we are suppose to, we also need to maintain the right level being paranoid
to protect the networks we are responsible for.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Pinsky [mailto:bep at whack.org]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 5:17 PM
To: Jim Deleskie
Cc: 'nanog at merit.edu'
Subject: Re: BGP to doom us all

Jim Deleskie wrote:
> 
> http://news.com.com/2100-1009-990608.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed
> 
> Seems the BGP will be the down fall of the internet, the sky is falling
the
> sky is falling

What a crock of crap.  Knowing who someone is doesn't stop them from causing

intentional or unintentional problems.  In fact, authentication is more
likely 
to cause people to become complacent wrt their filtering policies.  Hey I've

authenticated that router so it's going to only send me correct routes. 
Puleeeaaazzzz...

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bep