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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Joe Abley wrote: > 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.. > > 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. Maybe, however you can fix that.. RIPE for example uses hierarchical authorisation so you cant add a route on a block you are not allocated, the broken part here is that the non-European IRRs are not run by the registry and therefore accept anything.. Steve
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