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Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses
- From: Stephen J. Wilcox
- Date: Tue Aug 26 05:28:03 2003
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Joe Abley wrote:
> On Monday, 25 August 2003, at 19:08PM, Haesu wrote:
>
> > You ARE correct. If everyone employs IRR and put explicit filters
> > everywhere,
> > it'd be the perfect world..
>
> The IRR is currently a reasonable tool to use to avoid listening to
> routes which are advertised by mistake from peers who populate the IRR
> accurately. It's not a reasonable tool for avoiding maliciously bogus
> routes, since sticking maliciously bogus information in the IRR is
> trivial.
Maybe, however you can fix that.. RIPE for example uses hierarchical
authorisation so you cant add a route on a block you are not allocated, the
broken part here is that the non-European IRRs are not run by the registry and
therefore accept anything..
Steve
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