Bruce, I agree, while we all need to 'do the right thing' and only announce what we are suppose to, we also need to maintain the right level being paranoid to protect the networks we are responsible for. -Jim -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Pinsky [mailto:bep@whack.org] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 5:17 PM To: Jim Deleskie Cc: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: Re: BGP to doom us all Jim Deleskie wrote:
http://news.com.com/2100-1009-990608.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed
Seems the BGP will be the down fall of the internet, the sky is falling
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sky is falling
What a crock of crap. Knowing who someone is doesn't stop them from causing intentional or unintentional problems. In fact, authentication is more likely to cause people to become complacent wrt their filtering policies. Hey I've authenticated that router so it's going to only send me correct routes. Puleeeaaazzzz... ========== bep