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Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses

  • From: Joe Abley
  • Date: Mon Aug 25 19:46:45 2003 
On Monday, 25 August 2003, at 19:08PM, Haesu wrote:
You ARE correct. If everyone employs IRR and put explicit filters everywhere,
it'd be the perfect world..
... if everybody used the IRR to build explicit filters everywhere, if everybody kept their objects in the IRR up-to-date, and if there was some appropriate authorisation scheme in place to allow you to trust the data in the IRR implicitly, it'd be a perfect world.

The IRR is currently a reasonable tool to use to avoid listening to routes which are advertised by mistake from peers who populate the IRR accurately. It's not a reasonable tool for avoiding maliciously bogus routes, since sticking maliciously bogus information in the IRR is trivial.


Joe