Announcement of Experiments

Mon May 2 20:50:02 UTC 2022

> We are a group of researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology
> (Sweden).
> 
> Starting from May 9 until May 31, we plan to conduct a research study
> involving AS-PATH poisoning to measure how reliable route collectors
> are to report BGP poisoned routes.
> 
> We will use the PEERING Testbed [1] to announce the following two
> prefixes:
> 
>  - 184.164.236.0/24
> 
>  - 184.164.237.0/24
> 
> for our AS-path poisoning experiments.
> 
> The above experimental prefixes do not host any production services,
> hence user traffic will *not* be affected.
> 
> Furthermore, we will always start the AS-PATH with the correct ASN as the
> origin.
> 
> Lastly, to keep the AS-PATH short, we will announce no more than four
> Poisoned ASNs per announcement. The frequency of the announcements
> will not exceed four per hour.

seems quite harmless.  though i am sure folk who do not really
understand AS_PATH will get their nickers in a twist.

randy