[address-policy-wg] 2006-05 New Policy Proposal (PI Assignment Size)

>> if we are lucky, this time next year, you will be able to verify an X.509
>> certificate chain with rfc 3779 resource extensions, and have significant
>> confidence in rights to address and asn resources.
> 
> As I can understand, I can verify origin of prefix, prefix itself, but
> it can't authorize is that certain as-path legitimate or not. Like I can
> figure it out from routing registry DB. Isn't it?

the current work will provide a formally verifiable demonstration of
ownership of address space.

to achieve your goal _formally_ will require something like sbgp.

the irr is an informal way to kinda achieve what you want.  and we
use it today.

one first useful step for an isp is to use the x.509 data to verify
ownership assertions in the irr when building filter lists, for
example.

randy