On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Deepak Jain wrote:
I strongly approve of such requirement. I know that it is in
the peering
agreements of several carriers, but they often don't check or enforce this. Many register customer routes and ASes. If routes and policies were properly registered, securing the Internet would be a lot closer to being possible.
Is it safe to assume (now) that all the routes one would care to listen to (under normal circumstances) are registered in an IRR now? I remember there used to be well-known issues with some networks, especially internationally.
I dunno, there are plenty of smaller ASes who have yet to be forced to register their routes.
Of some importance, yes, definitely, since at least some actors (including Teleglobe, my home) tend to recurse on AS-set when building filters... so unless registrered all the way down/up, filtered... which, by the way, is a good moment/reason to help those "smaller ASes" go register (rather than patching/proxying for them). Cheers, mh
We haven't yet been forced, but I finally got motivated to submit them to altdb last night. Altdb definitely rocks.
Andy
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