Well said, dsl. Almost two decades ago I used to run an ISP in another country, and remember that BGP was already reasonably safe at the time (when v4 started t

Well said, dsl. Almost two decades ago I used to run an ISP in another country, and remember that BGP was already reasonably safe at the time (when v4 started to be implemented), with peers normally rejecting route updates from blocks outside your control. Yes, there's always the risk of a trusted peer mistakenly leaking routes publicly (and a permissive upstream provider not rejecting it outright), but that's a low risk attack vector. I do remember this happening a few times, but were quickly spotted and corrected (true, the internet at the time was a lot smaller; you could probably fit all sysadmins of a country in a room..) I see this article as the CloudFlare guy trying to get credit for an act of civility that many other sysadmins likely have done, silently, in parallel. Of course I'm glad he did, but wouldn't expect anything less. That's just how the internet works. ps: thanks for the link. NANOG is something that I had long ago erased from my brain. Had a chuckle looking at the archives :)