Unwanted Traffic Removal Service (UTRS)

Fri Oct 10 06:49:39 UTC 2014

At 22:58 09/10/2014 +0200, Christian Seitz wrote:

>Allowing ASN to blackhole a prefix based on AS sets is dangerous from my point
>of view. In the RIPE database you can add any AS to your AS set without
>verification. Ok, it doesn't make much difference because most IP transit
>providers also filter on the AS set, but a worldwide announced /24 prefix is
>much more visible than a /32 blackhole route that is only announced to the
>participants.

See:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/routing-wg/2014-June/002696.html

-Hank