[address-policy-wg] Legal counsel on 2008-08 (Initial Certification Policy in the RIPE NCC Service Region)

> I am a bit surprised that the whole discussion is around only this part
> of the equation. What about the added benefit of the routing security
> this policy and subsequently deployed and adopted system can add?
> 
> Today, your network can be taken down by a simple misconfiguration or
> malicious attack without any court order.

not "can be."  essentially, every day someone's prefix is mis-announced
by someone else.  some have been bad enough to make the press or nanog.
most are unintentional.  some are malicious.

you don't have to swollow the pill that lets you see black helicopters
to see this problem.  you just have to be a network operator, not a
wannabe net lawyer.

randy