Re: [babel] Paul Wouters' Discuss on draft-ietf-babel-rtt-extension-05: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> Tue, 13 February 2024 19:03 UTC

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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
To: Paul Wouters <paul.wouters@aiven.io>
Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-babel-rtt-extension@ietf.org, babel-chairs@ietf.org, babel@ietf.org, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [babel] Paul Wouters' Discuss on draft-ietf-babel-rtt-extension-05: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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> The current implementations are not vulnerable to the attack, since they
> use RTT information in order to penalise participating routers: RTT
> information is used to identify far-away routers, in order to avoid
> sending traffic through them.  In ten years, we have not come across
> a network topology where we would want to do the opposite.

This paragraph belongs in the second part of the mail.  Sorry for the
sloppy editing and sorry for the confusion.

-- Juliusz