Re: Tools

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>]

On maandag, maa 3, 2003, at 18:41 Europe/Amsterdam, 
bmanning () karoshi com wrote:

> > >         what is not functioning properly?

> > Determining who is authorized to announce a certain block of IP 
> > address
> > space.

>         no protocol is going to help with this problem. its a
>         social engineering issue, not a technical issue.

I really don't see this.

If we assume that the RIRs have authorative data on who holds what 
address space (which is sort of true for recent or well-mainained 
assignments) there is still a lot of glue necessary to make that into a 
"this route is ok" or "this route is not ok" decision when processing 
routing updates.