IETF/IESG note on soBGP and SBGP

Fri May 27 07:30:16 UTC 2005

IETF just published notes from recent IESG meeting, see
   http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/nyon-notes.txt

Part of their discussions which I'm quoting below is
directly relevant to "soBGP deployment" thread on NANOG:
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5.2 BGP SECURITY

There are two proposals -- SBGP and SOBGP (??).  One is from the
security group and another is from the routing area.  Should have a
BOF to determine what approach (one, the other or a hybrid) is likely
to gain traction with implementers.

At this point, each group is accusing the others of stacking the
requirements to support their solution.

Work would be done outside of current IDR WG.

Action in this area is important.  We may want to talk to our PR
department about how to make sure that governments and others are
aware that we are making progress on this.

If we want the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security or any government to
help us with this, we need to make it clear what they can do.
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So if you have thoughts or serious preference on SBGP vs soBGP vs
some other solution, I suspect next IETF meeting in Paris or one
after that in Vancouver would be place to be to discuss it at
the BoF.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net