On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:23:19 +0100, Matthias Waehlisch <waehlisch@ieee.org> said:
MW> Hi Mike, do you also intend to implement prefix origin MW> validation according to IETF/SIDR specs? We are planning to do prefix origin validation (it would be kind of pointless otherwise). Likely, with another tool and then RTR to a local cache. How much was going to be local and remote I'm not sure. But thanks for mentioning the RTR C Library, it may be useful for us. -Mike MW> Maybe as a side note: We implemented the RTR protocol as a MW> lightweight and very efficient C library, which allows to MW> exchange validated ROAs between cache and router and to perform MW> origin validation. The implementation is under LGPL license. It MW> is designed to be integrated into existing BGP daemons. Feel MW> free to use it. MW> Further details: MW> * http://rpki.realmv6.org/ MW> If you have further questions about the library, don't MW> hesitate to contact me offlist. MW> Cheers matthias MW> -- Matthias Waehlisch . Freie Universitaet Berlin, Inst. fuer MW> Informatik, AG CST . Takustr. 9, D-14195 Berlin, Germany MW> .. mailto:waehlisch@ieee.org MW> .. http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~waehl :. Also: MW> http://inet.cpt.haw-hamburg.de .. http://www.link-lab.net MW> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Michael Baer wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> We've been working on an extension to BIRD supporting the BGPSec >> protocol that is currently being discussed in the IETF SIDR >> Working Group. And I had some questions I wanted to ask the BIRD >> developers. If the user list isn't the appropriate forum, let me >> know and we can discuss it elsewhere or offline. >> >> We've made some initial progress, although it's not even to what >> I would call an Alpha stage yet. Our current plan is to have a >> beta/alpha working by the beginning of Summer and to continue >> work on it for up to a year afterwords. >> >> We would like to have the work contributed back to the BIRD >> project. Which brings me to the questions I had. Is the BIRD >> team interested in the contribution? Are we in conflict with any >> work you are doing to support BGPSec? (I haven't seen any mention >> on the user list, but I don't know if there has been any work >> otherwise). Assuming you are interested, besides that our code >> should have a compatible license, i.e. GPL, and it should try >> match the coding style of the files that are modified, are there >> any other requirements or desires that you may have regarding >> code enhancements and contributions to the BIRD project? >> >> Thanks, Mike >> >> -- Michael Baer baerm@tislabs.com