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Re: soBGP deployment

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Mon May 23 12:07:57 2005

On 23-mei-2005, at 17:39, Randy Bush wrote:

  o with sbgp, the assertion of the validity of asn A announcing
    prefix P to asn B is congruent with the bgp signaling itself,
    A merely signs the assertion in the bgp announcement.

  o with sobgp, the assertion is in an external database with
    issues such as
This is nonsense. Did you even read the soBGP drafts?

In S-BGP the certificates are carried in path attributes, in soBGP in a new BGP message. Other than that, they do not differ in this regard.

And unless the implementations are stupid, it should be simple enough to use a web of trust rather than a fixed trust hierarchy, so the RRs don't (necessarily) come into play.

its the old simplicity vs complexity game yet again
Do I hear you say that S-BGP is less complex than soBGP??