Re: [sidr] beacons and bgpsec

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Wed, 10 August 2011 16:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sidr] beacons and bgpsec
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>...
>I said it in part, because AS_SET has gone, precisely because its 
>just too hard to do in BGPSEC, as I understand it. The justification 
>is "its not useful" but its removed because of its impact on the 
>emerging protocol modifications.

AS_SET is hard to do, but the principle reason for deprecating it in 
IDR was because nobody appears to use it (properly).  Measurement 
indicate a very, very tiny number of updates made use of AS_SET, and 
further examination of those
indicated a likely misunderstanding of the "feature" by the ASes in question.

Steve