Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days
Geoff Huston gih at apnic.net
Thu Mar 3 10:27:57 CET 2005
>On 2005-03-02, at 19.38, James A. T. Rice wrote:
>
> > This seems to suggest that you are just picking ASns at random to
> > inject into the paths, and that you don't have a set of ASs which you
> > have the assignees permission to use.
>
>Would't this then actually equate to resource hijacking along the lines
>of prefix hijacking? Who will be the first to hit the RIRs?
Isn't this a case of illustrating how easy it is to tell lies in BGP today?
I don't
see what hitting the RIRs has do to with this. The problem appears to be more
basic than that - its just too easy to tell lies in BGP and get the lies
propagated
globally.
Geoff
