BGP route hijack by AS10990

Mon Aug 3 12:57:53 UTC 2020

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> We can all do better. We should all do better.
>

Agreed.

However, every time we go on this Righteous Indignation of Should Do
crusade, it would serve us well to stop and remember that in every one of
our jobs, at many points in our careers, we have been faced with a
situation where something we SHOULD do ends up being deferred for something
we MUST to do. It is a universal truth that there will never enough time
and resources to complete both, especially not in our current business
environment that the only thing that matters is the numbers for the next
quarter. Sometimes as engineers we have to make choices,  sometimes
choices are imposed on us by pointy hairs.

Telia made a mistake. They owned it and will endeavor to do better. What
more can be asked?

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 5:51 PM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.com> wrote:

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>
> On 31/Jul/20 23:38, Sabri Berisha wrote:
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> > Kudos to Telia for admitting their mistakes, and fixing their processes.
>
> Considering Telia's scope and "experience", that is one thing. But for
> the general good of the Internet, the number of intended or
> unintentional route hijacks in recent years, and all the noise that
> rises on this and other lists each time we have such incidents (this
> won't be the last), Telia should not have waited to be called out in
> order to get this fixed.
>
> Do we know if they are fixing this on just this customer of theirs, or
> all their customers? I know this has been their filtering policy with us
> (SEACOM) since 2014, as I pointed out earlier today. There has not been
> a shortage of similar incidents between now and then, where the
> community has consistently called for more deliberate and effective
> route filtering across inter-AS arrangements.
>
> There is massive responsibility for the community to act correctly for
> the Internet to succeed. Especially so during these Coronavirus times
> where the world depends on us to keep whatever shred of an economy is
> left up and running. Doubly so if you are a major concern (like Telia)
> for the core of the Internet.
>
> It's great that they are fixing this - but this was TOTALLY avoidable.
> That we won't see this again - even from the same the actors - isn't
> something I have high confidence in guaranteeing, based on current
> experience.
>
> We can all do better. We should all do better.
>
> Mark.
>
>
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