Re: Defeating DoS Attacks Through Accountability

[Austin Schutz <tex () off org>]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 01:46:45PM -0800, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote:
> > I'll put it this way: filtering should be done against blocks that a
> > customer can announce, not against blocks that a customer is actively
> > announcing.  If you're filtering purely against current advertisements,
> > you're bound to break something sooner or later.
>
> Good theory. But what one public source do all the ISP agree to validate the
> authority to announce?

        CW? (ha ha)

        Who says you have to have use a public authority to filter your
customers against? You can have your own private authority, if you really
want. You just have to get the customer to populate/maintain their data in it.

        Austin