On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Robert Kisteleki <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2010.07.28. 17:54, Sandra Murphy wrote:
>>
>> The problem is the possibility that not accommodating legitimate BGP
>> updates
>> might result in opportunities for bad guys to get around protections.
>
> IMO that's not the problem. The problem is that we don't want to have
> special mechanisms for cases that occur 0.0007% (or is 0.02%?) of the time.
>
> It's like creating a special shampoo product line for albinos. No offense to
> albinos, but it's not really a good idea. It'll fail.
>
> [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albinism
>
>> So we need to have some statement of what to do with this legitimate BGP
>> update format. And we need some certainty that we aren't introducing
>> opportuntities to circumvent the protections of ordinary updates.
>
> Agree. My suggestion: these announcements are not in scope for SIDR.

pls define 'not in scope', what behavior is expected when a 'sidr
compliant' router sees an update with an AS_SET in the path? (drop
update? mark as invalid? mark as unknown? mark as valid? something
else?)

<normal-joe-hat)
-Chris

>
> Robert
>
>> Protecting the AS_SETs etc is out of scope.
>>
>> --Sandy
>
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