Re: [Dots] Eric Rescorla's Discuss on draft-ietf-dots-requirements-18: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Andrew Mortensen <andrewmortensen@gmail.com> Fri, 22 February 2019 15:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Dots] Eric Rescorla's Discuss on draft-ietf-dots-requirements-18: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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See below.

> On Feb 22, 2019, at 8:41 AM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> …snip...
> 
>> 
>> 
>> S 2.2.
>>>        active DOTS client has not requested mitigation, in order to
>>>        control load.
>>> 
>>>        Following mutual authentication, a signal channel MUST be
>>>        considered active until a DOTS agent explicitly ends the session.
>>>        During peace time, signal channel MUST be considered active
>>> until
>> 
>> "peace time" is probably not the right word here. After all, my country might
>> be at peace but still subject to a DoS attack
> 
> Added the following term to avoid confusion :
> Peacetime: In DDoS, ‘peacetime’ refers to the period during which the target network is not under DDoS attack.
> 
> If you must, but I think this is might be considered a little in bad taste by people who are involved in actual wars.

I think we can just change the text to “When no attack traffic is present, the signal channel MUST be….” No need for the extra definition.

andrew