Re: [sidr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-protocol-01.txt

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 02 November 2011 03:58 UTC

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> I believe the concerns regarding "AS-path cheating" to attract
> traffic, by using pCount=0, could be addressed with some special
> handling.

draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-ops-01 suggests a knob

   If it is known that a BGPsec neighbor is not a transparent route
   server, and the router provides a knob to disallow a received pCount
   (prepend count, zero for transparent route servers) of zero, that
   knob SHOULD be applied.


randy