6 Jan
1998
6 Jan
'98
4:23 p.m.
Sean M. Doran wrote:
Vadim Antonov ?avg@pluris.com? writes:
? The only real solution is strong cryptographical authentication of ? the ownership of routing prefixes. For some reason i do not see ? any serious work in that direction being done.
This would be much easier if we had a bottom-up hierarchical addressing structure rather than the current top-down one.
I quite agree with that (though i'm not convinced that "bottom->top" allocation combined with recursive NATting is the best architecture). However, this does not preclude doing authentication with the current routing system. --vadim