On maandag, maa 3, 2003, at 18:41 Europe/Amsterdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what is not functioning properly?
Determining who is authorized to announce a certain block of IP address
space.
no protocol is going to help with this problem. its a
social engineering issue, not a technical issue.
I really don't see this.
If we assume that the RIRs have authorative data on who holds what address space (which is sort of true for recent or well-mainained assignments) there is still a lot of glue necessary to make that into a "this route is ok" or "this route is not ok" decision when processing routing updates.
