Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On May 1, 2012, at 10:31 PM, John Kristoff wrote:

> As Radia says in her book, we're probably stuck with BGP forever, but I frequently wonder if she is right in 
> suggesting we could have done
> better by having a link state protocol instead.

At the time, link-state protocols weren't practical for the scale required - even today, it would be problematic.

Ideally, this would be very nice, but I just don't think it's practical, even today.

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