Dear all,
Thank you, Jean Armour to remind this situation. IMHO this kind of issue
shows the need for the ALAC to liaise with, or to have @large
representatives at the IETF, and to exercise QA advice and control on
Internet protocols, solutions and architecture, the same as it to be an
ICANN advisor. The best way for this would be through a formal MoU with
the IETF.
We have to understand that one way or another the IGF/WSIS is going to do
this too (possibly through a WSIS Technical Forum). Then the ALAC
will be able to fully play its role of ICANN community interface with the
Members of the IGF/Enhanced Cooperation. At that time it would very good
for the ALAC credibility to show some results or at least established
debate.
The point you do today, seems to be also a good reasons for ALAC to get
informed/investigate about the ROAP IETF/IAB issue (ROuting and Adressing
Problem) leading to a possible disruption of the routing due to IPv6
management. On a more general perspective I would suggest that ALAC could
start from the US cyberspace review and consider the status of the US
cyberspace strategy which are probably the most active, but probably
late. The reference is
http://white-house.giv/pcipb. BGP is one of the priorities assigned
by this strategy devised after 9/11. It was more than 5 years ago.
jfc
At 03:39 27/02/2008, Jean Armour Polly wrote:
Over the weekend, the Pakistan
Telecom Authority ordered Pakistan's ISPs to block YouTube. The ISPs
shared BGP (Border gateway protocol) data, which advertised routes
to nowhere for YouTube.
But, the routes were "accidentally" shared with a company in
Hong Kong. Because the routes were very concise, and because no one
bothered to see if they were accurate, routers all over accepted the
routes as the best path to YouTube.
The following article gives more information, including the suggestion
that secure BGP be adopted.
http://www.macworld.com/article/132256/2008/02/networking.html
This article
http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3786d02a-34e5-4f04-ad93-ce3a039f3eed&rss=112
provides more information, including this quote:
"Misrouting occurs every year or so among the world's Internet
carriers, usually as a result of typos or other errors, Underwood said.
In a more severe example, a Turkish telecom provider in 2004 started
advertising that it was the best route to all of the Internet, causing
widespread outages for many Web sites over several hours.
"Nobody ran any viruses or worms or malicious code. This is just the
way the Internet works. And it's not very secure or reliable,"
Underwood said, adding that there is no real solution to the problem on
the table.
While most route hijacking is unintentional, some Yahoo networks were
apparently taken over a few years ago to distribute spam.
"To be honest, there's not a single thing preventing this from
happening to E-Trade, or Bank of America, or the FBI, or the White House,
or the Clinton campaign," Underwood said. "I think it's a
useful moment for people to decide just how important it is that we fix
problems like this."
How stable is the Internet, anyway? Perhaps ALAC would like to
discuss.
Jean Armour Polly
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