Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 03:04:07AM -0700, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote a message of 9 lines which said:

draft-bates-bgp4-nlri-orig-verif-00.txt was '98

and we dropped it for good reasons

Unfortunately, we have RFCs for good ideas but bad ideas never get documented by the IETF (one of the few exceptions is RFC 3197). So, bad ideas keep coming back and back again. Would you explain in a few words why this was a bad idea? I personally find Rover a very interesting idea, and which seems realistic.