On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Brian Bruns wrote: [snip] > I've confirmed this behavior with several of the backbones. Why are these > backbones allowing their T1 customers to make these kind of announcements > without any kind of authorization forms or simple checking to see if its a > valid announcement for that customer?
Because confirming this isn't always trivial, and is easy to fake. Most importantly because it hasn't been a major problem, unless you consider william's ranting to be of operational impact.
