Re: [Idr] [GROW] draft-snijders-idr-shutdown-00: Drop a line in the peer's syslog at shutdown

[Job Snijders <[e-mail]>]

Hi Robert,

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:24:51PM +0100, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> The alternative to the below which could be attractive both to senders and
> receivers is indirection ... meaning that we would only extend current
> cease sub 2 with say 21 octets which would be basic UTF8 string of URL
> shortcut: https://goo.gl/V5as9h 

While I am aware that David Wheeler said: "All problems in computer
science can be solved by another level of indirection", there are some
practicalities to be considered:

    https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/security_risks_11.html
    https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2016/04/14/gone-in-six-characters-short-urls-considered-harmful-for-cloud-services/
    https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~shmat/shmat_urls.pdf

In addition to that, the user behind the router which received the
Shutdown Communication might no longer have access to the web due to
that shutdown event.

> That way anyone receiving the link in the cease admin down or any
> other sub type can click on it and read any arbitrary info or even get
> guide how to configure his peer to say support new peering types being
> currently prepared for cooking.

Ofcourse, people are free to put a URL in the 128 octets worth of
Shutdown Communication. This is for the operators to decide.

Kind regards,

Job