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
>
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