On 8/10/12 3:40 AM, "Byron Ellacott" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi Doug,
>
>On 10/08/2012, at 3:46 PM, Montgomery, Douglas wrote:
>
>>> Substitute "ASm" for "AS0" in my example.
>> 
>> You can not change a VALID route to any other state by creating
>>additional
>> valid ROAs.  You have to delete (revoke, etc) the valid matching ROAs to
>> achieve that. Creating a (covering) ROA can change an UNKNOW to an
>> INVALID.   
>
>You can change an INVALID route to a VALID route by creating a ROA for
>it, though, and if C doesn't think G should be getting their traffic,
>they could issue the ROA and announce the route and capture at least some
>traffic.

Agreed.

>
>> I would agree on a weaker statement, that we should discuss and come to
>> some understanding about issues of consistency associated with
>>overlapping
>> attestations from multiple levels of the resource hierarchy and/or a
>> single holder.  The current syntax of our objects and validation
>> algorithms allow considerable flexibility here.  If, and where policies
>> should curtail some of this flexibility is what we are discussing.
>
>I think that's a side discussion that might be interesting, but it's
>orthogonal to a draft proposing certification that is for a purpose other
>than authorisation of claims of current holdings.  We're not talking
>about attestations at multiple levels of the resource hierarchy with
>grandfathering, we're talking about issuing certificates that are
>intentionally not aligned with current holdings, to enable attestations
>about resources to be made before the question of who the right holder is
>has been resolved.
>
>This could possibly be resolved through section 4.9.4 of the CPS document
>- a CA who wishes to allow themselves the flexibility to recognise a
>claim to resources from a grandchild without immediately severing their
>child could note that a grace period may be provided on revocation due to
>resource holding changes on a case by case basis.  This allows a
>grandfathering approach where the CA updates the record of current
>holding, but delays the revocation of the former holder while resolving
>questions about who should be the current holder - but it does not, in my
>view, solve the problem of getting packets to the right place, because
>"the right place" is not known until the identity of the current holder
>is known.
>
>  Byron


There seems to be a lot of assumptions in terms like "the right place".
Are you suggesting that EE Certs/attestations for a given resource can
only be made at the leaves of the allocation tree?   What about
attestations about aggregate routes at higher levels of the hierarchy?

dougm


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