Bootstrapping accountability in the internet we have
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
Dynamics of prefix usage at an edge router
PAM'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Passive and active measurement
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NSS'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Network and System Security
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Estimating the number of hosts corresponding to an intrusion alert while preserving privacy
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
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The era of free IPv4 address allocations has ended and the grey market in IPv4 addresses is now emerging. This paper argues that one cannot and should not try to regulate who sells addresses and at what price, but one does need to provide some proof of ownership in the form of resource certification. In this paper we identify key requirements of resource certification, gained from both theoretical analysis and operational history. We further argue these requirements can be achieved by making use of the existing reverse DNS hierarchy, enhanced with DNS Security. Our analysis compares reverse DNS entries and BGP routing tables and shows this is both feasible and achievable today; an essential requirement as the grey market is also emerging today and solutions are needed now, not years in the future.