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For the non network admins amongst us: http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/2012-February/01222...

that was fascinating. i thought i understood the internet but i followed through with discovering what the terminology meant and feel a few times more clever right now. also, overwhelmed with putting the pieces together in my mind about where decentralisation breaks down.

The lack of security and authenticity in BGP is really one of the great weak points of the Internet. Problems are resolved quickly, but problems and mistakes are easy to make which is the first order problem.

There is work being done to better secure the BGP and prefix delegation / announcement infrastructure now: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog49/abstracts.php?pt=MTU3N...

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