Re: [v6ops] Deaggregation by large organizations

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Wed, 15 October 2014 15:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Deaggregation by large organizations
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On Oct 15, 2014, at 7:29 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
> However, rather than advertising that block in BGP as a single prefix, or perhaps a handful of prefixes, like an ISP would, they subdivide this block within the organization and then many subunits advertise subprefixes though different ISPs. The aggregate may or may not be advertised.

Yuck.   Has anybody done an analysis of how this works with RPKI?   Seems like an obvious attack surface if the RPKI isn't present or isn't done right.