Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Lu Heng via db-wg
Hi On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 00:11 Daniel Suchy via db-wg wrote: > On 06/15/2018 04:52 PM, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > > Ripe and Afrinic, are not “someone else”, they are part of an unified RIR > > system that adminiatrating the numbers. > > The system is *not* unified. Each RIR has it's own

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Daniel Suchy via db-wg
On 06/15/2018 04:52 PM, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > Ripe and Afrinic, are not “someone else”, they are part of an unified RIR > system that adminiatrating the numbers. The system is *not* unified. Each RIR has it's own policies, own rules, own implementation of the database... > As Job suggested,

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Lu Heng via db-wg
I don’t see and I don’t think it’s relevant. As Job suggested, let’s wait RIPE their plan and future discuss the timeline—If Afrinic haven’t fix things by then. In the meanwhile, I would hope globene community put joint effect to have Afrinic fix their IRRs. On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 23:54 Sandra

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Sandra Murphy via db-wg
> On Jun 15, 2018, at 9:12 AM, Sascha Luck [ml] via db-wg > wrote: > > There is nothing stupid or unreasonable about asking to delay an > action that *will* cause operational issues even if their root > cause lies elsewhere. “Our operation relies on insecurity in the IRR database, so we want

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Lu Heng via db-wg
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 23:50 Sandra Murphy wrote: > > > On Jun 15, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > > > > It’s internet, one internet, and it belong to everyone. just don’t tell > someone else what must to be doing. > > Considering that you are asking RIPE to change RIPE's plans

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Lu Heng via db-wg
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 22:40 Job Snijders wrote: > Hi all, > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 22:16 denis walker via db-wg > wrote: > >> > >> Lu, the point being made is that RIPE (community, working groups, > chairs, > >> NCC) have no

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Job Snijders via db-wg
Hi all, On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 22:16 denis walker via db-wg wrote: >> >> Lu, the point being made is that RIPE (community, working groups, chairs, >> NCC) have no authority to change policies or procedures in the AFRINIC >> region. If

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Gert Doering via db-wg
Hi, On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 02:12:54PM +0100, Sascha Luck [ml] via db-wg wrote: > There is nothing stupid or unreasonable about asking to delay an > action that *will* cause operational issues even if their root > cause lies elsewhere. Since no existing objects will be removed, it will not break

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Sascha Luck [ml] via db-wg
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 02:57:17PM +0200, Gert Doering via db-wg wrote: Please learn to read. "Address management, delegation and authority are very clearly regionalized", which means you cannot just go to some place you find convenient and complain about problems elsewhere. I would sort out

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Gert Doering via db-wg
Hi, On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 09:55:14PM +0900, Lu Heng wrote: > > Internet doesn't distingish *traffic*, but that is not the relevant > > question here anyway. Address management, delegation and authority > > are very clearly regionalized, so any beef you have with Afrinic-delegated > > space

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Lu Heng via db-wg
Hi On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 21:53 Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 09:48:12PM +0900, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > > RIR IRR should not work separately, as internet doesn???t distinguish > from > > ripe traffic to Afrinic traffic, we shouldn???t solve one problem here > and > >

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Lu Heng via db-wg
--- > *From:* Job Snijders > *To:* denis walker > *Cc:* Lu Heng ; Database WG > *Sent:* Friday, 15 June 2018, 14:03 > *Subject:* Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE > route object > > Dear Denis, > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:58 PM

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread denis walker via db-wg
: Friday, 15 June 2018, 14:03 Subject: Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object Dear Denis, On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:58 PM, denis walker via db-wg wrote: > My current understanding is that AFRINIC does not refuse to create a ROUTE > simply because you do n

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread Job Snijders via db-wg
Dear Denis, On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:58 PM, denis walker via db-wg wrote: > My current understanding is that AFRINIC does not refuse to create a ROUTE > simply because you do not own the foreign ASN. They may do some additional > checks, but if everything is in order they will permit the ROUTE

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-15 Thread denis walker via db-wg
Hi Lu My current understanding is that AFRINIC does not refuse to create a ROUTE simply because you do not own the foreign ASN. They may do some additional checks, but if everything is in order they will permit the ROUTE creation. So this is not a show stopper. As a side note, if you have

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-14 Thread Sean Stuart via db-wg
Hi Lu, Are you disagreeing with the proposal, or disagreeing with the implementation details? I have seen several requests to delay implementation, but none with a valid technical reason to not close a security flaw. As I brought up at the microphone, I would love to see a solution built that

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-14 Thread Lu Heng via db-wg
Hi Denis: Consensus is neither unanimity nor majority. Below is a quotation from RFC: "quite often we are letting the majority win the day without consideration of minority concerns. " "Lack of disagreement is more important than agreement" "Rough consensus is achieved when all issues are

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-14 Thread denis walker via db-wg
Hi All The co-chairs of the DB-WG are talking in the background to the RIRs about how this change will impact the holders of their address space. We are following the points raised here and checking some issues with the appropriate RIRs. The RIPE NCC Database team is also in the loop of these

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-14 Thread Sean Stuart via db-wg
I personally think the highest priority for RIPE should be to clean up the security of the RIPE database to reduce the ability to use it for undesired purposes. Once the database is locked down to ensure that only authenticated RIPE members can register space that is registered to them, then

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Randy Bush via db-wg
i think the bottom line here is that the IRR, and by that i mean the total collection of IRR instances, is poorly secured by design. we can spend a lot of time with patches and workarounds, or we can take it for what it is and live with it. if you want security and authenticity by design, use

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Randy Bush via db-wg
> Why can't small ISPs use the IRR provided by the RIR? this may come as a shock, but not all isps are close to their regional rir. > You only end up in a third party IRR database (such as RADB) if you > have a prefix from AfriNIC and an ASN from RIPE. and hundreds of dollars per year > But if

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
BUSH, RANDY, DBWGOPS would like to recall the message, "A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object". ?

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Randy Bush via db-wg
> [ off list ] well, it wasn't. thanks to header modification by broken do-gooder email software. do not modify email headers!!!

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Job Snijders via db-wg
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 09:39:52AM -0700, Randy Bush via db-wg wrote: > [ off list ] this was not offlist. > isps need the irr-based filtering 'telcoms' to use all the irr > instances, as small emerging economy isps can not afford radb and will > soon not be able to use ripe. so the attackers

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Randy Bush via db-wg
[ off list ] isps need the irr-based filtering 'telcoms' to use all the irr instances, as small emerging economy isps can not afford radb and will soon not be able to use ripe. so the attackers will use the irr instance with lowest security to spoof. randy

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Sandra Murphy via db-wg
> On Jun 13, 2018, at 9:23 AM, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > > I do not mean in the very least sense to delay an implementation unless the > risk shown by it is far too serious. So if it is just because no one notices > the problem in the very beginning (which I am trying to address now) Not

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Sandra Murphy via db-wg
> On Jun 13, 2018, at 8:03 AM, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > > The ultimate discussion should be, and will be, is it RIPE net or internet? > > I am saying the current situation will break network by forbidding change it, > and it is network we break, really doesn’t matter where it is which

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Lu Heng via db-wg wrote on 13/06/2018 14:23: All I am asking here is to delay implementation and give Afrinic sometime to fix their IRR. I don't see a good reason to do this. Afrinic have a process in place to create route objects and there are other IRRDBs which can be used as an

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Lu Heng via db-wg
Hi colleagues: I do not mean in the very least sense to delay an implementation unless the risk shown by it is far too serious. So if it is just because no one notices the problem in the very beginning (which I am trying to address now), does that mean we have to ignore it? A dangerous bridge

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Gert Doering via db-wg
Hi, On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:11:34PM +0800, Lu Heng wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 20:10 Gert Doering wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:03:20PM +0800, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > > > And until then, I think there is not enough consensus from the community > > to > > > implement this

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Lu Heng via db-wg wrote on 13/06/2018 13:11: On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 20:10 Gert Doering wrote: This has been discussed extensively and there has been consensus to go ahead with this. That’s a bullying answer. What Gert said was simply a statement of fact:

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Lu Heng via db-wg
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 20:10 Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:03:20PM +0800, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > > And until then, I think there is not enough consensus from the community > to > > implement this change in the future. > > This has been discussed extensively and

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Gert Doering via db-wg
Hi, On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:03:20PM +0800, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > And until then, I think there is not enough consensus from the community to > implement this change in the future. This has been discussed extensively and there has been consensus to go ahead with this. Gert Doering

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Lu Heng via db-wg
The ultimate discussion should be, and will be, is it RIPE net or internet? I am saying the current situation will break network by forbidding change it, and it is network we break, really doesn’t matter where it is which registry it from. We are victims of massive hijacking, many of my space

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Job Snijders via db-wg
Dear Denis, On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:45:24AM +, denis walker wrote: > >> In conclusion, If you employ a non-Afrinic asn for announcements > >> (which means a foreign asn), using RIPE’s route object will be the > >> only choice for you unless you are one of those big telecoms which > >> has

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Sascha Luck [ml] via db-wg wrote on 13/06/2018 12:39: Secondly, there is an unintended consequence to this, namely that, if you make it impossible for a segment of resource holders to register their routes properly, some transit providers and IXPs will have no choice but to accept their

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread denis walker via db-wg
Hi Job From: Job Snijders via db-wg To: Lu Heng Cc: Database WG Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2018, 12:52 Subject: Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object >> >> In conclusion, If you employ a non-Afrinic asn for announcements >

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Sascha Luck [ml] via db-wg
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:11:09AM +, Job Snijders via db-wg wrote: I am sympathetic, but RIPE has no obligation to keep a glaring security hole open to accommodate another RIR's lack of expedience. There was a time when it would have been seen as the obligation of any RIR to keep the

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Peter Thimmesch via db-wg
+1 ... in CAPITAL LETTERS too. Regards, Peter Thimmesch -- hic sunt dracones On Jun 13, 2018, at 7:12 PM, Job Snijders via db-wg mailto:db-wg@ripe.net>> wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Lu Heng mailto:h...@anytimechinese.com>> wrote: Internet is one, and

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Job Snijders via db-wg
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Lu Heng wrote: > Internet is one, and this is a general problem of all Afrinic space, just > don’t make it personal please. I didn't intend to make anything personal, so phrased differently: What you highlight is ultimately a problem between AfriNIC members and

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Lu Heng via db-wg
Hi Job: Internet is one, and this is a general problem of all Afrinic space, just don’t make it personal please. I hope Afrinic fix it rather soon that way every thing works, until then, prevent network change is one way of breaking it. On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 18:52 Job Snijders wrote: > Dear

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Job Snijders via db-wg
Dear Lu, On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 06:19:10PM +0800, Lu Heng via db-wg wrote: > In the past three weeks, we have done some tests on 3 AFRINIC /24 > which have been announced in the US, Europe, and Asia, by an ARIN ASN, > APNIC ASN, and an RIPE ASN. > > Test results: > > If it is a direct announce