Re: soBGP deployment

[Michael.Dillon () radianz com]

> Security ought to not make the system being protected brittle.  Like 
> the example of routing changes being held up until the paperwork went 
> through - maybe an improvement in tools will enable this.

It should be possible for a network operator to make
their own policy decisions on this. Some may choose to
accept uncertified routes in certain address ranges
because this makes their network less brittle. Others
may consider the brittleness to be a feature because
it tends to highlight deficiencies with the 3rd
party tools, databases, systems, which should be fixed.
Consider the phone number translation databases used
for number portability. If they are not updated when 
a telephone moves to another location, then the service
is disrupted. If PSTN operators can find a way to
share and synchronize a number portability database,
then why can't network operators do something similar?

--Michael Dillon