Re: Helpful BGP Feature

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Brandon,
In fact, you bring up some good points wrt problems with the current
situation-hackers have potential to do damage via all the NAPs/
Providers/Routers.
So in some cases one could limit the Number of unnecessary NAPs/
Providers/Routers that are given a route.

Even with encryption in fact,via all these
points you are also subject to attacks such as:
TCP SYN attacks,ping flooding, spamming,people trying to gain
unauthorized access to your site for various purposes, etc.
Why not limit the number of hackers to whom you advertise a
route to you in the first place ?

It may also have the additional advantage that it may limit filling
up the Global Routing table of those Routers that "need to know"
and also anyone that doesnt need access to a particular
destination wont see any flapping. -this may be of some use wrt
two big problems in the Internet.

An example, off the cuff:perhaps a company is providing a bank
balance web server or the ablility to do stock transactions -
it may only want to give a route to its content/server
to specifically those who have an account and paid
a fee that day.In fact this could be done dynamically as
users pay their access fee.