soBGP deployment

Mon May 23 16:54:58 UTC 2005

In message <B6DE33ED-0C90-46A1-ACD9-329F10905B0B at muada.com>, Iljitsch van Beijn
um writes:
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>On 23-mei-2005, at 17:39, Randy Bush wrote:
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>>   o with sbgp, the assertion of the validity of asn A announcing
>>     prefix P to asn B is congruent with the bgp signaling itself,
>>     A merely signs the assertion in the bgp announcement.
>
>>   o with sobgp, the assertion is in an external database with
>>     issues such as
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>This is nonsense. Did you even read the soBGP drafts?
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>In S-BGP the certificates are carried in path attributes, in soBGP in  
>a new BGP message. Other than that, they do not differ in this regard.

Randy isn't talking about certificates, he's talking about how you tell 
if a path is legitimate.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb