BCP 38

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BCP 38 is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Best Current Practice that recommends network ingress filtering to prevent IP address spoofing and reduce the impact of denial-of-service attacks.


Statements (39)
Predicate Object
instanceOf IETF Best Current Practice
network security recommendation
abbreviationFor Best Current Practice 38
addressesProblem IP source address spoofing
distributed denial-of-service attacks
reflection and amplification attacks
aimsTo increase accountability of traffic sources
reduce abuse of spoofed addresses in attacks
appliesTo Internet service providers
edge networks
network operators
associatedWith IETF
category Internet standardization document
documentSeries Best Current Practice (BCP)
encourages deployment of ingress filters at network boundaries
focusesOn ingress filtering of IP packets
governedBy IETF standards process
hasAudience ISPs
network engineers
security engineers
hasFullName Best Current Practice 38
intendedEffect improve overall Internet security posture
limit propagation of spoofed traffic across the Internet
primaryGoal prevent IP address spoofing
reduce impact of denial-of-service attacks
publishedBy Internet Engineering Task Force
recommends network ingress filtering
relatedConcept DDoS protection
Internet infrastructure security
anti-spoofing filters
source address validation
requires dropping traffic with invalid source prefixes
filtering packets with spoofed source addresses
securityDomain DDoS mitigation
Internet routing security
source address validation
status active Best Current Practice
targetLayer network layer
usesProtocol IP

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Best Current Practice
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