So -- what did happen to Panix?

Sat Jan 28 19:27:12 UTC 2006

In message <OFA6D31A52.8D06553F-ON80257103.005A5CB4-80257103.005AB975 at btradianz
.com>, Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com writes:
>
>> certified validation of prefix ownership (and path, as has been
>> pointed out) would be great.  it's clearly a laudable goal and seemed
>> like the right way to go.  but right now, no one is doing it.  the
>> rfcs that's i've found have all expired.  and the conversation about
>> it has reached the point where people seem to have stopped even
>> disagreeing about how to do it.  in short, it's as dead as dns-sec.
>> so what are we do do in the meantime?
>
>Perhaps people should stop trying to have these
>operational discussions in the IETF and take the
>discussions to NANOG where network operators gather.

We have tried, of course; see, for example, NANOG 28 (Salt Lake City).
There was no more consensus at NANOG than in the IETF...

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