1. Make your customers register routes, then filter them. (may be time for big providers to put routing tools into open source for the good of the community - make it less hard?) 2. Implement the "1-hop" hack to protect your BGP peering. 98% of problem solved on the Internet today 3. Implement a "# of routes-type" filter to make your peers (and transit customers) phone you if they really do want to add 500,000 routes to your session ( or the wrong set of YouTube routes...). 99.9% of problem solved. 4. Implement BGP-Sec 99.91% of "this" problem solved. Because #1 is 'just too hard' and because #4 is just too sexy as an academic pursuit we all suffer the consequences. It's a shame that tier one peering agreements didn't evolve with a 'filter your customers' clause (aka do the right thing) as well as a 'like for like' (similar investments) clause in them. I'm not downplaying the BGP-SEC work, I think it's valid and may one day save us from some smart bunny who wants to make a name for himself by bringing the Internet to a halt. I don't believe that's what we're battling here. We're battling the operational cost of doing the right thing with the toolset we have versus waiting for a utopian solution (foolproof and free) that may never come. jy ps. my personal view. On 25/02/2012, at 6:26 AM, Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net> wrote:
On Feb 24, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
But just because we can't solve the whole problem, does that mean we shouldn't solve any of it?
Nope, we most certainly should decompose the problem into addressable elements, that's core to engineering and operations.
However, simply because the currently envisaged solution doesn't solve this problem doesn't mean we shouldn't acknowledge it exists.
The IETF's BGP security threats document [1] "describes a threat model for BGP path security", which constrains itself to the carefully worded SIDR WG charter, which addresses route origin authorization and AS_PATH "semantics" -- i.e., this "leak" problem is expressly out of scope of a threats document discussing BGP path security - eh?
How the heck we can talk about BGP path security and not consider this incident a threat is beyond me, particularly when it happens by accident all the time. How we can justify putting all that BGPSEC and RPKI machinery in place and not address this "leak" issue somewhere in the mix is, err.., telling.
Alas, I suspect we can all agree that experiments are good and the market will ultimately decide.
-danny
[1] draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-threats-02