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Re: soBGP deployment

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Mon May 23 22:52:10 2005

>>   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?

yes

> 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.

you are confusing certificates and the attestation of routing
policy.  

> Do I hear you say that S-BGP is less complex than soBGP??

yes

randy