line 408 ff. in the IETF 83 SIDR minutes * http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/83/minutes/minutes-83-sidr.txt Cheers matthias -- Matthias Waehlisch . Freie Universitaet Berlin, Inst. fuer Informatik, AG CST . Takustr. 9, D-14195 Berlin, Germany .. mailto:waehlisch@ieee.org .. http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~waehl :. Also: http://inet.cpt.haw-hamburg.de .. http://www.link-lab.net On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Paul Vixie wrote:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/27/2039237/engineers-ponder-easier-fix-...
"The problem: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) enables routers to communicate about the best path to other networks, but routers don't verify the route 'announcements.' When routing problems erupt, 'it's very difficult to tell if this is fat fingering on a router or malicious <http://www.itworld.com/security/272320/engineers-ponder-easier-fix-dangerous-internet-problem>,' said Joe Gersch, chief operating officer for Secure64, a company that makes Domain Name System (DNS) server software. In a well-known incident, Pakistan Telecom made an error with BGP after Pakistan's government ordered in 2008 that ISPs block YouTube, which ended up knocking Google's service offline <http://slashdot.org/story/08/02/25/1322252/pakistan-youtube-block-breaks-the-world>. A solution exists, but it's complex, and deployment has been slow. Now experts have found an easier way."
this seems late, compared to the various commitments made to rpki in recent years. is anybody taking it seriously?