On Thursday, April 03, 2014 03:55:11 PM Christopher Morrow wrote:
I'm going to guess: 1) who's going to pay for the filtering setup work?
Well, your customers are paying you to ensure they don't get cut off due to your negligence. You also don't want to become a "watch-out-for-that-one" peer within the community. But, perhaps those two ideals are not significant motivation for change :-\.
2) we have always done it this way... why change?
This is probably a more endemic issue of our industry, where operators find it hard to keep up with the times (there is no shortage of "-bis" or BCP documents) through actual useful implementation (BCP-38) vs. talk (SDN hype). In the case of nailing routing filters for customers, one thought that comes to mind is if your organization is large enough, throw a warm body at the issue. There are lots of interns or folk you can hire on a temporary basis to focus on cleaning all this up, and getting the NOC trained and clued up on the new strategy. The new strategy is not just shiny, it could actually save you loss of customers and community respect. But that's just me... Mark.