26 Aug
2003
26 Aug
'03
5:22 a.m.
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Joe Abley wrote:
On Monday, 25 August 2003, at 19:08PM, Haesu wrote:
You ARE correct. If everyone employs IRR and put explicit filters everywhere, it'd be the perfect world..
The IRR is currently a reasonable tool to use to avoid listening to routes which are advertised by mistake from peers who populate the IRR accurately. It's not a reasonable tool for avoiding maliciously bogus routes, since sticking maliciously bogus information in the IRR is trivial.
Maybe, however you can fix that.. RIPE for example uses hierarchical authorisation so you cant add a route on a block you are not allocated, the broken part here is that the non-European IRRs are not run by the registry and therefore accept anything.. Steve