[address-policy-wg] New Draft Document: De-boganising New AddressBlocks

Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:
> 
> >The RIPE NCC has prepared a draft document titled "De-Bogonising New
> >Address Blocks":
> 
> That is a misleading title.
> 
> The problem is that ISPs cannot react quickly enough
> to open filters when new ranges are allocated. The proposed
> solution is to provide advance notification. I suppose this
> could allow ISPs to open filters before the new addresses
> are actually in use officially.

ISPs should not filter the IANA reserved IP ranges but only the
Martians stuff that is defined to be unrouteable.  Everything
else is causing more problems than it solves.  Otherwise we
wouldn't have this discussion over and over again each time
a RIR opens a fresh /8.

> However, it will also allow spammers to announce this
> space and get it through bogon filters.

There is no way you can block spammers by filtering the IANA
reserved ranges.  There are many other ways spammers can set
up bogon netblocks.  For example there are many netblocks which
are assigned/allocated by the RIRs but never announced in the
global routing system.  Just walk the prefix table of current
/8s used by the RIRs and use the holes to send your spam.

Again, the cure of filtering is worse than the desease of not
filtering.

> The real solution to this problem is to make it
> possible for ISPs to closely track RIR allocations
> in their filters in a semi-automated way. There may
> still be a few days of delay before a new allocation
> is fully routable but ISPs can compensate for that
> with internal processes.

There is no way every ISP is going to follow that and adjust
his filters within "a few days".

> Why can't ISPs subscribe to a feed of all new
> RIPE allocations in near real-time?

Just don't filter IANA reserved space.  It's that easy.

-- 
Andre