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

I have no problem with adding this attribute.
- Philip

On Fri, 2-May-08, at 11:52 , Dan Wing wrote:
> 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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