Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

Anton Kapela tkapela at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 18:07:32 UTC 2011


+1

-Tk

On Sep 4, 2011, at 12:23 PM, "Neil J. McRae" <neil at domino.org> wrote:

> maybe volunteers from the nanog community should contact you?
>
> On 4 Sep 2011, at 16:45, "Jennifer Rexford" <jrex at CS.Princeton.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Neil,
>>
>> The group is being assembled right now, so we don't have a list as of yet.
>>
>> -- Jen
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> 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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