In a message written on Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 09:27:57AM -0400, Danny McPherson 
wrote:
> I never said "does not require any pre-knowledge".  As a matter of fact,  
> what I said, and what the draft says, is that with unique origins the 
> services operator _could publish in a well-known location a list of origin 
> ASNs for a given prefix and the feasible adjacent upstreams for each ASN.  
> With that information network operators can make informed decisions about 
> the legitimacy of a new path in the routing system for a critical Internet
> services prefix.

Ok, fair enough.  So let's ask the direct question:

  Would it not be even better then for them to have a unique origin
  ASN, and publish the list of paths that originate the route,
  achieving the same result without needing to have an inconsistent
  origin?

Seems like that would be a quick change to the draft...

And couldn't the entire draft thus be greatly simplifed to a single
paragraph?

  Anycast operators SHOULD publish a list of all valid AS-Paths to reach
  their Anycast service to aid in the detection of routing leaks.

I suppose bonus points if we could agree on a method for publishing
(RPSL?).

-- 
Leo Bicknell; E-mail: [email protected], Phone: +1 650 423 1358
INOC*DBA *3357*592; Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.  www.isc.org
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