In message <OFA6D31A52.8D06553F-ON80257103.005A5CB4-80257103.005AB975@btradianz .com>, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com writes:
certified validation of prefix ownership (and path, as has been pointed out) would be great. it's clearly a laudable goal and seemed like the right way to go. but right now, no one is doing it. the rfcs that's i've found have all expired. and the conversation about it has reached the point where people seem to have stopped even disagreeing about how to do it. in short, it's as dead as dns-sec. so what are we do do in the meantime?
Perhaps people should stop trying to have these operational discussions in the IETF and take the discussions to NANOG where network operators gather.
We have tried, of course; see, for example, NANOG 28 (Salt Lake City). There was no more consensus at NANOG than in the IETF... --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb