BGP to doom us all

Mon Mar 3 14:00:55 UTC 2003

Good point, Sean. The problem is the business process and the risk to the
process, vs. the cost to fix it.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean at donelan.com]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 7:25 PM
To: 'nanog at merit.edu'
Subject: Re: BGP to doom us all 

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, 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

Other than pending patents and a cool name Secure BGP, you still have
the fundamental problem.  Garbage In, Garbage Out.  The only difference
is now you have Secure Garbage(tm).

There is a problem that needs to be solved.  But like the whole
micro-payments, SET, etc thing; if the solution is more complicated and
more expensive than the alternatives; it won't get used no matter how
"secure" it is.