The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, supported by the Internet Society, today announced the Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Cloud Programme to help secure large hubs of the Internet from common routing problems. Internet society also announced that Akamai, Amazon Web Services, Azion, Cloudflare, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix are participants in the new program and a number of other companies will join soon.
Baseline of routing security
Participants agree to keep the Internet safe for businesses and consumers alike. Thus, they commit to the baseline of routing security defined by a set of six security-enhancing actions, of which five are mandatory to implement. The actions are:
- Prevent propagation of incorrect routing information
- Prevent traffic of illegitimate source IP addresses
- Facilitate global operational communication and coordination
- Facilitate validation of routing information on a global scale
- Encourage MANRS adoption
- Provide monitoring and debugging tools to peering partners (optional)
Andrei Robachevsky, the Internet Society’s Senior Director for Technology Programs said,
“The MANRS community can leverage the new participants’ unique roles in the Internet routing system, in particular their vast peering value, for the benefit of a more secure Internet. Putting in place more stringent controls on routing hygiene in the peering environment, will increase awareness of the need for greater MANRS adoption by peering networks. The CDN and cloud community is integral to the Internet ecosystem, and by joining MANRS, they are joining a community of Internet service providers (ISPs) and Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) committed to making the global routing infrastructure more secure.”