Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

Mon Sep 5 14:18:28 UTC 2011

On Sep 5, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> In a message written on Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 04:16:45PM -0400, Sharon Goldberg wrote:
>> An ISP might deploy S*BGP in order to increase the volume of traffic
>> that it transits for its customers.
> 
> I think this phrase summarizes the problem with this argument nicely.
> 
> If, as an ISP, deploying a "secure" routing protocol changes my
> traffic positively or negatively something is wrong.  Securing the
> routing system should not alter the routing system.
> 
> I'm afraid as long as it does this work has an uphill battle.
> 

One could argue that rejecting routes which you previously had no way to
know you should reject will inherently alter the routing system and that this
is probably a good thing.

Owen