RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

["Barry Greene (bgreene)" <bgreene () cisco com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
> Behalf Of Steven M. Bellovin
> How about state-of-the-art routing security?
>
> Seriously -- a number of us have been warning that this could happen.
> More precisely, we've been warning that this could happen 
> *again*; we all know about many older incidents, from the 
> barely noticed to the very noisy.  (AS 7007, anyone?)  
> Something like S-BGP will stop this cold.
>
> Yes, I know there are serious deployment and operational 
> issues.  The question is this: when is the pain from routing 
> incidents great enough that we're forced to act?  It would 
> have been nice to have done something before this, since now 
> all the world's script kiddies have seen what can be done.

BCPs stops this problem. soBGP may make it easier.