On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:36:04PM -0600, Bob Salmi wrote:
> 3.7 Routing System Security
[...]
> RJS: How about
>
> A router must be able to detect, and should be able to recover from transitive
> data inconsistencies. Good, valid data from 1 or more sources must not
> be combined together with existing or received data to create a destabilizing
> effect(for some value of destabilizing) . If a router is not able to recover, it
> must not propagate the inconsitent data if the router is a propagator of control
> information.
This came up in the context of the current ambiguities in the
BGP confederatins spec.
A syntactially correct packet, i.e. a packet that is well-formed,
should not be the reason to tear down a peering session. If the
packet is syntactically correct, but some portion of it is semantically
incorrect, it should be received, ignored, logged and not propagated.
-- Jeff Haas NextHop Technologies
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