I think your message reads good. Should Brian be encouraged to present his route-leak drafts in the IDR WG meeting? Do we know if he is he planning to?
Sriram >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Murphy, Sandra >Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:23 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [sidr] route leaks message to IDR > >In the interim meeting, the consensus was that we needed idr to be involved in >any definition and solution for route leaks. It was decided to discuss a >message to >the idr wg on the sidr list. > >Brian Dickson has submitted drafts about route leaks, as he offered in the >meeting. > >So here is a first draft at a messate to idr. Comments please. > >============== > >The sidr interim meeting in February discussed the problem of route leaks. > >While those in the room could recognize route leaks in a diagram, they could >not >determine a way to determine that from information communicated in BGP. > >Proposals to stop route leaks add information to BGP updates that would be used >to restrict the propagation of those updates by the neighbor onward to >providers, >customers, peers, etc. > >This is a change to BGP behavior, which now relies on local configuration only >to >choose a best path and advertise it. Adding features to stop route leaks would >restrict that advertisement and restrict what local policy could choose. > >The consensus in the room was that adding a new feature to a protocol as part >of >a security protection (i.e., not just ensuring an already defined behavior but >producing brand new behavior) is unwise and leads to problems. > >The sidr working group requests that idr discuss the route leaks problem with >sidr >and determine the best path forward. > >The idr wg should also be aware that drafts have been submitted about route >leaks, so work is underway. > >http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-foo-sidr-simple-leak-attack-bgpsec-no-help-01 >http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dickson-sidr-route-leak-def-01 >http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dickson-sidr-route-leak-reqts-02 >http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dickson-sidr-route-leak-solns-01 > >=================== > >--Sandy >_______________________________________________ >sidr mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr _______________________________________________ sidr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr
