Re: [BEHAVE] Consensus call on Adding "Client" attribute to STUN

As chair: fine by me.  I was hoping more people would comment for/against
Magnus's consensus call. 

As an individual and co-author of rfc3489bis:  I support adding the new CLIENT
attribute.

-d

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rémi Denis-Courmont [mailto:remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 5:06 AM
> To: Dan Wing
> Cc: behave@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [BEHAVE] Consensus call on Adding "Client" 
> attribute to STUN
> 
> 
> 	Dan,
> 
> I think I'll wait for the conclusion of this before I update 
> the test vectors. 
> I can see it coming that people will ask for a CLIENT attribute there.
> 
> Is that OK?
> 
> Le Thursday 24 April 2008 20:31:25 ext Magnus Westerlund, 
> vous avez écrit :
> > This is a one week+ consensus call (until the 5th of May) if the WG
> > thinks that STUN (draft-ietf-behave-rfc3489bis) shall be 
> extended with
> > an additional attribute "Client" before publication.
> >
> > With the general description along the lines of:
> >
> >     X.Y CLIENT
> >
> >     The client attribute contains a textual description of 
> the software
> >     being used by the client, including manufacturer and 
> version number.
> >     The attribute has no impact on operation of the 
> protocol, and serves
> >     only as a tool for diagnostic and debugging purposes.  
> The value of
> >     CLIENT is variable length.  It MUST be a UTF-8 [RFC3629] encoded
> >     sequence of less than 128 characters (which can be as 
> long as 763
> >     bytes).
> >
> > And some Security Considerations on the risk for targeted attacks
> > against clients with this information. Plus other text 
> needed to bring
> > it in consistently
> >
> > The text is open for wordsmithing by the editors of the STUN spec.
> >
> > Please indicate your position on adding this or not.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Magnus Westerlund
> >
> > IETF Transport Area Director & TSVWG Chair
> > 
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> -- 
> Rémi Denis-Courmont

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