BCP38 needs advertising

Paul Ferguson fergdawgster at gmail.com
Wed Mar 27 18:31:32 UTC 2013


But of course. :-)

Also, just saw this:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet

- ferg

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Arturo Servin <arturo.servin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>         And do not forget ....
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp38
>
> :)
>
> -as
>
>
> On 3/27/13 2:17 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>> 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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