Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

Jennifer Rexford jrex at CS.Princeton.EDU
Sun Sep 4 15:44:49 UTC 2011


Neil,

The group is being assembled right now, so we don't have a list as of yet. 

-- Jen


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On Sep 4, 2011, at 11:32 AM, "Neil J. McRae" <neil at domino.org> wrote:

> Jen,
> What operators are involved? And who represents them specifically?
> 
> Neil.
> 
> On 04/09/2011 16:07, "Jennifer Rexford" <jrex at CS.Princeton.EDU> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> As one of the co-chairs of this working group, I'd like to chime in to
>> clarify the purpose of this group.  Our goal is to assemble a group of
>> vendors and operators (not "publish or perish" academics) to discuss and
>> recommend effective strategies for incremental deployment of security
>> solutions for BGP (e.g., such as the ongoing RPKI and BGP-SEC work).  It
>> is not to design new security protocols or to "write policy and
>> procedures for operators" -- that would of course be over-reaching and
>> presumptuous.  The goal is specifically to identify strategies for
>> incremental deployment of the solutions designed and evaluated by the
>> appropriate technical groups (e.g., IETF working groups).  And, while the
>> SIGCOMM paper you mention is an example of such a strategy, it is just
>> one single example -- and is by no means the recommendation of a group
>> that is not yet even fully assembled yet.  The working group will debate
>> and discuss a great many issues before suggesting any strategies, and
>> those strategies would be the output of the entire working group.
>> 
>> <tongue in cheek> As for "publish or perish" academics, I doubt you'll
>> find that the small set of academics who choose to go knee deep into
>> operational issues do so because they are trying to optimize their
>> academic careers... ;) </tongue in cheek>
>> 
>> -- Jen
>> 
> 
> 




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