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Re: [bmwg] draft-green-bmwg-seceff-bench-meth-00

Dennis Cox <dcox@breakingpoint.com> Sat, 29 October 2011 18:44 UTC

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Al,

 Yes "evil" is used in a previous RFC, however that is a April Fools Day RFC. While it's a great RFC and we have actually implemented it in our product, all in good fun of course, I don't know if its the best term when talking about traffic that may only be slightly evil :)

For your reference
http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/community/blog/rfc3514-setting-the-evil-bit/

Dennis

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From: Al Morton [acmorton@att.com]
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Subject: Re: [bmwg] draft-green-bmwg-seceff-bench-meth-00

At 08:49 AM 10/29/2011, Dennis Cox wrote:
>...Also, evil may not be the best word, perhaps malicious might be a
>bit used instead.

Both terms are used in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514
Al
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