Recently (or not so recently?) some RFCs were published on the topic of a new standard in routing security. This is the ASPA (Autonomous System Provider Authorization) Objects system. Even more recently the first route leak prevented by ASPA ocurred, in february 2023. I thought it might be fun to explore if we could achieve the same thing, only with BIRD2, some open source tools, and a bit of TypeScript. So let’s dive in!

Ever since I can remember I have always had some curiosity about the internet. It began with a desire to create websites. Then a desire to publish those websites. Then a desire to build apps out from those websites. And so on. Eventually I was deep into application development, having started with PHP, and eventually settling in the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem. Publishing (hosting) those applications is what led me to learning about Linux, networking, and a bunch of other “sysadmin-y” stuff.