Re: [sidr] route leaks message to IDR

["Sriram, Kotikalapudi" <[e-mail]>]

I think your message reads good.

Should Brian be encouraged to present his route-leak drafts in the IDR WG meeting?
Do we know if he is he planning to?

Sriram


>-----Original Message-----
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>Murphy, Sandra
>Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:23 AM
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>Subject: [sidr] route leaks message to IDR
>
>In the interim meeting, the consensus was that we needed idr to be involved in
>any definition and solution for route leaks.  It was decided to discuss a message to
>the idr wg on the sidr list.
>
>Brian Dickson has submitted drafts about route leaks, as he offered in the
>meeting.
>
>So here is a first draft at a messate to idr.  Comments please.
>
>==============
>
>The sidr interim meeting in February discussed the problem of route leaks.
>
>While those in the room could recognize route leaks in a diagram, they could not
>determine a way to determine that from information communicated in BGP.
>
>Proposals to stop route leaks add information to BGP updates that would be used
>to restrict the propagation of those updates by the neighbor onward to providers,
>customers, peers, etc.
>
>This is a change to BGP behavior, which now relies on local configuration only to
>choose a best path and advertise it.  Adding features to stop route leaks would
>restrict that advertisement and restrict what local policy could choose.
>
>The consensus in the room was that adding a new feature to a protocol as part of
>a security protection  (i.e., not just ensuring an already defined behavior but
>producing brand new behavior) is unwise and leads to problems.
>
>The sidr working group requests that idr discuss the route leaks problem with sidr
>and determine the best path forward.
>
>The idr wg should also be aware that drafts have been submitted about route
>leaks, so work is underway.
>
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-foo-sidr-simple-leak-attack-bgpsec-no-help-01
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dickson-sidr-route-leak-def-01
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dickson-sidr-route-leak-reqts-02
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dickson-sidr-route-leak-solns-01
>
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>
>--Sandy
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