Late to the discussion because I needed to have cycles to read and think
about this draft...


On 7/31/14, 4:03 PM, "Stephen Kent" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Terry has reminded us that, even if such accidents occur, the world does
>not end, at
>least wrt origin validation. Thus, for the current set of SIDR RFCs, the
>damage that
>would occur is not nearly so great as some have suggested; until the
>error is fixed (which
>one would presume would be fairly quickly), origin validation would
>treat the affected
>routes as no worse than they are treated today.

WG] Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure I agree with this
characterization. This is probably true for routes that transition from
Valid to Unknown, but not if they are actually found to be Invalid, which
is what I understand would be the result of the problem discussed in this
draft - invalid certs = invalid routes. While policy is ultimately a local
matter, in 7115 we recommend dropping invalids due to the fact that it
isn't possible to depref any routes enough to ensure that they are never
used if they are more specific than a valid or unknown route with a
comparably higher local pref. Unless we're changing that guidance, "%
Network not in table" is worse than they'd be treated today.

Deploying SIDR OV is about risk vs reward, i.e. How much benefit do I gain
in terms of what outages (attack vectors) I'm protecting myself and my
customers against vs what risk the same parties incur for experiencing
other outages that only exist if I am deploying OV. The possibility of
routes being invalidated and dropped on account of a botched cert overlap
or migration puts this squarely on the wrong side of the risk/reward
balance.

Thanks

Wes George


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