Re: [sidr] Follow-up on June 6 Interim : Confederations

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Fri, 15 June 2012 21:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sidr] Follow-up on June 6 Interim : Confederations
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> This solution for confeds *requires* each AS within a confed to sign internally 
> (i.e., from AS to AS within the confed). It does not allow the choice to 
> a confed operator to sign or not sign the updates internally. 
> For instance, the operator may be satisfied with the level of mutual trust 
> within the confed, and therefore may choose to not sign updates internally. 
> 
> Do we want to provision this choice into the protocol?

sure, if they strip bgpsec and reconstruct the as-path.

in bgpsec, all ass sign.  end.

randy