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Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post)
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 17:17:39 +0200
On 1/Jun/15 17:00, Jared Mauch wrote:
This can have catastrophic effects if one does that with your sewers, septic fields, etc but we accept it in the BGP and routing universe for some reason.
Because our industry (for better or worse) is not as regulated as other "life-concerning" things in the world such as health, aviation, education, construction, finance, electricity, e.t.c., are, it is up to us to make sure we do the right thing. But if there is no "official" or "standard" metric against which we can hold one another accountable, we are all bound to do our own things, as you say, that are enough to make it work and forget about it. As the saying goes, "You can't blame a monkey for botching a brain surgery". Our lack of regulation means we can quickly scramble up a global routing protocol on three napkins and get it into production. This is a good thing. The question now is - how important is this Internetnetwork to us that we are willing to accept a moderate to significant amount of inconvenience in order to improve its long term utility the same way we expect the sewer companies to do a decent job keeping the filth out of sight? Mark.
Current thread:
- Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post), (continued)
- Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post) Sandra Murphy (Jun 10)
- RE: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post) Russ White (Jun 11)
- RE: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post) David Mandelberg (Jun 11)
- Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post) Christopher Morrow (Jun 11)
- Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post) Sandra Murphy (Jun 10)
- RE: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post) Russ White (Jun 11)
- Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post) David Mandelberg (Jun 04)
- Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post) Mark Andrews (Jun 02)
- Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post) Danny McPherson (Jun 03)
- Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post) Roland Dobbins (Jun 01)
- Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post) Mark Tinka (Jun 01)
- Re: BGP in the Washngton Post Mark Andrews (Jun 02)
- Re: BGP in the Washngton Post Randy Bush (Jun 02)
- Re: BGP in the Washngton Post Saku Ytti (Jun 03)