Re: where was my white knight....

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Nov 9, 2011, at 1:14 AM, <bmanning () vacation karoshi com> wrote:

> that was/is kindof orthoginal to the question... would the sidr plan for routing security have been a help in this 
> event? 

SIDR is intended to provide route-origination validation - it isn't intended to be nor can it possibly be a remedy for 
vendor-specific implementation problems.

Validation storm-control is something which must be accounted for in SIDR/DANE architecture, implementation, and 
deployment.  But at the end of the day, vendors are still responsible for their own code.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>

                The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

                          -- Oscar Wilde