Re: [Sidrops] WGLC - draft-ietf-sidrops-validating-bgp-speaker - ENDS 09/07/2018 - Sept 7th 2018

[Nick Hilliard <[e-mail]>]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Kopp wrote on 31/08/2018 13:01:
> The draft is intended for networks that can't (technically) or won't 
> (politically) implement RPKI in their own networks,

If an organisation won't implement RPKI for policy reasons, then that is 
a decision that they are responsible for, and it is not really the job 
of the IETF to engineer around their layer 9 problems.

Regarding the "can't technically" position that some networks find 
themselves in, this argument is evaporating quickly, as more bgp stacks 
implement RO validation.  All the major vendors do this already on 
current equipment, so this is beginning to become a question of whether 
people are on current support contracts or not, which brings the issue 
back to a policy decision on their part, rather than strictly a 
technical decision.

> maybe we can find a way to make this work

This is the crux: in the context of ebgp and public exchange of NLRIs,
the draft presents a methodology which is incompatible with good quality 
network engineering and product design.  I don't believe this can be fixed.

Nick