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From: "Nick Hilliard" <nick@foobar.org>
It would be really good to have a formal public statement of intent from UMD about their long term plans for 128.8.10.90 after retirement so that we don't have a repeat of the L root hijacking debacle in 2008.
Quite so: UMD: Where will the old IP route after the 6 month period is complete? Somewhere safe? In point of fact, ISTM that there *is no way* to make this completely safe; granted that it's a low percentage attack, and thus probably not useful to actual attackers, but the possibility exists that someone could hijack that block at a provider level, and provide their own replacement for that old server IP. But of course, they can do it *now*, too, so I guess it doesn't matter anymore. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274