Re: [sidr] BGPSEC Threat Model ID

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 02 November 2011 18:00 UTC

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> 1. Most providers apparently want to enforce policy without telling
> anyone what their policy actually is. That this is a logical
> contradiction doesn't seem to disturb anyone.

Policy on the global Internet changes every 36ms, new circuits, new
customers, new peers, ...

We already have a protocol to distribute policy or its effects, it is
called BGP

We can not know intent, should Mary have announced the prefix to Bob

But Joe can formally validate that Mary did announce the prefix to Bob

BGPsec validates that the protocol has not been violated, and is not
about intent or business policy

randy