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RE: IP Block 99/8

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sat Apr 21 05:11:19 2007

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Marcus H. Sachs wrote: 
If we had "clean" registries and signed/verifiable advertisements this would
not be an issue.  Most of you know that DHS was pushing the Secure Protocols
for the Routing Infrastructure initiative
(http://www.cyber.st.dhs.gov/spri.html).  Due to budget cuts this program is
on the shelf for now.  However, we are still interested in making it happen.

The grass is always greener, which is closely related to don't watch sausage being made.

Telephone numbers are over 50 years old, but routing of telephone numbers isn't actually verifiable either especially with some international destinations.

Almost all multi-organizational identity systems have this problem. If you can't trust the organizations involved, more math isn't going to help.