Thanks John. That's the comment I was fishing for.

--
Jakob Heitz.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John G. Scudder [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 2:06 PM
> To: Jakob Heitz
> Cc: Hannes Gredler; sidr wg list
> Subject: Re: [sidr] origin attribute
> 
> On Oct 23, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Jakob Heitz 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "origin" does not seem to be an attribute subject to change.
> 
> In theory you're right, if the attribute were being used as 
> originally envisioned. In practice, as Warren points out, 
> you're not because it's not. People do set Origin once the 
> route is in flight, as a handy low-order policy thing they 
> can fiddle with. 
> 
> BGPSec protecting Origin would stomp on current operational 
> practice, so it would need to be justified more strongly than 
> "seemed like a good idea at the time".
> 
> --John
> 
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