On May 10, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: > At the risk of seeming to be a conspiracy theorist, I am worried that > with "Central Authority" we might not have "hijacking" but "rerouting > for inspection and correction".
Building a database (i.e,. RPKI) aligned with the Internet number resource allocation hierarchy attesting to who's authorized to originate what route announcements and telling you how to configure your routers are two fundamentally different things. If that database doesn't exist it's tough to discriminate between legitimate and malicious or erroneous announcements - irrespective of how you discriminate. If it does exist, and you use it, anyone that can rub two packets together is surely going to employ preferences that first consider organizational and local objectives, then potentially national, and then some global inputs. This basically helps people to make more informed decisions, methinks. -danny
