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> China Telecom (CT) entered North American networks at the beginning of the 2000s, and has since grown to have 10 PoPs, eight in the US and two in Canada, span
by mirimir 7y ago
> China Telecom (CT) entered North American networks at the beginning of the 2000s, and has since grown to have 10 PoPs, eight in the US and two in Canada, spanning both coasts and all the major exchange points in the US. Few other non-American ISPs has such a wide-spread presence on US soil.
So can't the US government just shut them down?
I mean, do US firms operate ten PoPs in China?
- est 7y ago> So can't the US government just shut them down? Yes the US government can, but the "shutdown" will make the US look just as bad as China. I think the best approach is to shutdown all .edu, .gov and .mil access to China first.
- mirimir 7y agoI know ~nothing about BGP. But couldn't there be some sore of "firewall" that would prevent clearly absurd routes from getting used? Like S-BGP?
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- tomschlick 7y agoRPKI would allow signing of BGP routes so that networks could reject them if they were not signed by the owners. Cloudflare has been pushing it heavily to avoid this kind of crap. https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/
- mirimir 7y agoThere's a sibling subthread which says that RPKI wouldn't be enough.[0] Me, I have no clue. And ELI5, what does S-BGP do differently? 0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20980296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20980296
- indemnity 7y agoTelia is implementing RPKI too: https://www.teliacarrier.com/Press-room/Press-releases/Telia-Carrier-Takes-Major-Step-to-Improve-the-Integrity-of-the-Internet-Core-.html https://www.teliacarrier.com/Press-room/Press-releases/Telia...
- nyolfen 7y agothis is probably a bad precedent to set