"Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing"

Sun Oct 20 13:06:51 UTC 2019

On 20/10/19 11:08 pm, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Hank Nussbacher <hank at efes.iucc.ac.il> writes:
>> On 07/10/2019 17:42, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 03:52:26PM -0400,
>>>   Phil Pishioneri <pgp+nanog at psu.edu> wrote
>>>   a message of 9 lines which said:
>>>
>>>> Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing
>>>> UMass Amherst researchers to use cloud-based ‘logically centralized
>>>> control’
>>> Executive summary: it's SDN for BGP. Centralizing Internet routing,
>>> what could go wrong? (As the authors say, "One reason is there is no
>>> single entity that has a big picture of what is going on, no
>>> manager". I wonder who will be Internet's manager.)
>>>
>> Centralized Internet routing - sounds like DoH for BGP.
> 
> Great idea!  Why don't we just run BGP over HTTPS?  Everyone already has
> a browser, so we can get rid of all these expensive routers.

IMO BGP over TLS actually makes a bunch of sense, and can be done using
TLS-PSK to avoid certificates for those who want that.

I wrote a rough idea of what it would need:
https://laptop006.livejournal.com/60532.html