academic paper on Peerlock BGP protection mechanism

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Dear colleagues,                                                                                                        
                                                      
                                                                                                                        
                                                      
An interesting paper has been made available as pre-print: "Peerlock:                                                   
                                                      
Flexsealing BGP" by Tyler McDaniel, Jared M. Smith, and Max Schuchard                                                   
                                                      
from the University of Tennessee.                                                                                       
                                                      
                                                                                                                        
                                                      
The paper probably is the most formal description of Peerlock so far.                                                   
                                                      
They even conducted active measurements to reverse-engineer what the                                                    
                                                      
state of Peerlock deployment is in the global Intenet routing system.                                                   
                                                      
                                                                                                                        
                                                      
    Abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06576                                                                          
                                                      
    PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.06576.pdf                                                                           
                                                      
                                                                                                                        
                                                      
Recommended reading!                                                                                                    
                                                      
                                                                                                                        
                                                      
Kind regards,                                                                                                           
                                                      
                                                                                                                        
                                                      
Job