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This will be an unpopular opinion, but I would require all allied countries to enforce bcp38/rfc2827 to prevent spoofing. Any country not adopting this would b
by LinuxBender 5y ago
This will be an unpopular opinion, but I would require all allied countries to enforce bcp38/rfc2827 to prevent spoofing. Any country not adopting this would be null routed by all other countries. When a country does not police it's own traffic to make a serious effort to stop known criminal entities, all other countries would null route or remove BGP advertising the IP space of that country until they got their act together. This would create some financial incentive to take out the trash. The null routes or filtered BGP advertisements would be temporary unless a country repeatedly violates policy. This puts the onus on each country to take crime seriously in their own jurisdictions. Side stepping the blocks would result in sanctions as a starting point. I do realize and acknowledge this could potentially lead to privacy issues, as countries would have to enforce identity to at least get internet transport level access. There is also the matter of corruption.
Within a country, the same methods would be enforced. If for example, T-Mobile allowed unfettered abuse of its pre-paid wireless cards as they do then the countries they reside in would de-list them from BGP advertisements. The government would have legal immunity in doing so. Or if AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, OVH, etc... allowed people to abuse their VM's, same deal. De-listing might start with a region then become global depending on the level of abuse and how seriously the company responds and takes action to take out the trash.
In my humble opinion, anything short of this would just be meaningless political posturing and the problems would continue to grow and escalate.