In 2020, MANRS participants have almost doubled from 317 participants at the beginning of the year to 588 participants managing 651 autonomous systems from over 60 countries across all continents, as of December 31, 2020.
MANRS
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security
Routing security is vital to the future and stability of the Internet, and the global MANRS initiative implements the crucial fixes needed to reduce the most common routing threats.
Ensuring Internet traffic is reliably routed around the world is a critical building block for a trustworthy, global Internet. Based on common network operational practices in place today, the global Internet routing system does not have sufficient security controls to prevent the injection of false routing information, including impersonation of networks. The lack of these controls creates a significant vulnerability of the entire system. The result is thousands of incidents of misrouted traffic or denial of service on a global scale each year.
The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, which has been fostered by the Internet Society, overcomes this collective problem by establishing a security baseline of concrete actions for network operators. These actions are supported by a growing and visible community of more than 500 networks around the world that have adopted them.
Our Work in 2021
- We will continue growing the number of MANRS Participants to improve routing security. By the end of 2021, we expect to see a 10% decrease in the number of global routing incidents.
- We will work to increase uptake in routing security measures among MANRS Participants:
- 10% increase in ROA (Route Origin Authorization) creation by the existing MANRS participants;
- 5% of existing MANRS participants implementing ROV (Route Origin Validation); and,
- 30% improvement in MANRS participants’ conformance.
- We are committed to providing ongoing support to MANRS as a community-designed and, ultimately, a community-led initiative. In 2021, we will work with the MANRS Advisory Group on assessing community readiness to receive, cultivate, own, and govern MANRS initiative moving forward.
High-level, long-term goals include MANRS being viewed as a norm in routing operations—with non-conformance seen as unacceptable—and, by 2025, for MANRS itself being a self-governed community engaged in substantive activities that drive improvements in routing security.
Our Work in 2020
- The number of MANRS Participants more than doubled in 2020, reaching 588 participants in December.
- We launched a new Programme for CDN and Cloud Providers and a Task Force to support the Programme Development.
- We updated the MANRS Observatory to make it more informative and easy to use.
- We established an Advisory Group to represent the MANRS Participants and to ensure that decisions about participation have the support of the MANRS Community.
- We conducted a new 6-month MANRS Ambassador and Fellow Program, focusing on three key areas: Training, Research, and Policy.
MANRS News
All China Telecom Backbone Networks Now Meeting MANRS Security Standards
In the News
6 June 2021
All China Telecom Backbone Networks Now Meeting MANRS Security Standards
Hosting Journalist
All China Telecom Backbone Networks Accepted By MANRS
In the News
1 June 2021
All China Telecom Backbone Networks Accepted By MANRS
China Telecom Americas
Feedback Requested: Chartering the MANRS Community
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
20 April 2021
Feedback Requested: Chartering the MANRS Community
While MANRS has gone from strength to strength since its beginning in 2014, gaining attention, interest, and credibility from...
MANRS Fellowship 2021 Now Open
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
3 March 2021
MANRS Fellowship 2021 Now Open
The MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security) Fellowship Program 2021 is now accepting applications. If you are an emerging...
2020: A Record Year for MANRS
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
19 February 2021
2020: A Record Year for MANRS
Over the past year, COVID-19 underlined the importance of a secure and resilient Internet to ensure we stay connected...
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MANRS Community Report 2020
In this report we highlight success stories, the concrete impacts we made, from our efforts in training and partnership...
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MANRS Fact Sheet: Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Cloud Programme
We are inviting CDNs and cloud providers around the world to join the programme.
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Routing Security for Policymakers
Although unseen to the average user, Internet Protocol (IP) routing underpins the Internet. By ensuring that packets go where...
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Addressing the challenge of IP spoofing
Nowhere in the basic architecture of the Internet is there a more hideous flaw than in the lack of...
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