On 7 Sep 2011, at 14:12, Jakob Heitz wrote: > While a router that performs BGPSEC may not be more expensive in 5 years than > one that does not today, that is not relevant. A router that performs BGPSEC > in 5 years will most definitely cost more to produce as well as cost more to > run than a router that does not perform BGPSEC in 5 years. > > So, a question for you Rob. Will your customers pay the premium for BGP > security?
Hi Jakob, This is of course an interesting question - which comes down to the question of whether the threats that are being addressed by bgpsec are common-place. I definitely have customers that would pay a premium to mitigate this as a DoS vector, or malicious interception mechanism, but equally, have customers who would not, based on their current experience. >From what I have seen of the demand for origin validation at the current time, >I would say that my personal opinion (and no dataset to support this, sorry) >is that any willingness to pay a premium will grow relatively slowly. As such, >this makes the point about trying to ensure that we have a deployable protocol >that attempts to represent the smallest step change it can in terms of >computational requirements more important to me - since this will mean that it >is easier to begin deploying, and meeting the demand. Kind regards, r. _______________________________________________ sidr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr
