adding bgpsec to bird

[Michael Baer]

>>>>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:23:19 +0100, Matthias Waehlisch <waehlisch at 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 at 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
    >> 
    >> 


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Michael Baer
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