BCP38 needs advertising

Wed Mar 27 17:17:46 UTC 2013

Please reference:

http://openresolverproject.org/
http://spoofer.csail.mit.edu/
http://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-inside-a-dns-amplification-ddos-attack

...and anything else to raise the awareness level.

Thanks,

- ferg (co-perpetrator of BCP38)  :-)

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Alain Hebert <ahebert at pubnix.net> wrote:

>     bcp38.org coming soon =D
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> On 03/27/13 11:20, Jack Bates wrote:
>> Outside of needing more details and examples, BCP38 could use more
>> advertising.
>>
>> The best option, if they would accept it, is to have all RIRs mention
>> BCP38 as well as require that mention of BCP38 be included in all IP
>> justification requests to customers (so that those who receive
>> netblocks from their ISPs are also aware of it).
>>
>> For ARIN, at least, having it mentioned in the attestation process
>> wouldn't be a bad idea. At least someone of management would be aware
>> of it.
>>
>> The only issue is see concerning the RIRs is that they may object to
>> it being out of scope to their duties. However, informing people of
>> something is not requiring implementation of something. On the other
>> hand, we know that there are a great number of networks that don't
>> participate with the community at large and may have no idea about
>> BCP38 and why it is important.
>>
>>
>> Jack
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