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Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics


From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 11:24:38 +0000

On Sep 4, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Randy Bush wrote:

Will the benefits of security - no more YouTube incidents, etc. - be perceived as worth having one's routing at the 
whim of an non-operational administrative monopoly?

Given recent events in SSL CA-land, how certain are we that the putative security benefits are all that great?  Not to 
mention the near-certainty of a BGP version of 'PROTECT IP', once the mechanisms are in place.

Same applies to DNSSEC, of course.

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