4 Nov
2003
4 Nov
'03
10:42 a.m.
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Brian Bruns wrote: [snip]
I've confirmed this behavior with several of the backbones. Why are these backbones allowing their T1 customers to make these kind of announcements without any kind of authorization forms or simple checking to see if its a valid announcement for that customer?
Because confirming this isn't always trivial, and is easy to fake. Most importantly because it hasn't been a major problem, unless you consider william's ranting to be of operational impact.