Re: Call for Community Feedback: Guidance on Reporting Protocol Vulnerabilities

Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> Mon, 26 October 2020 09:58 UTC

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From: Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:57:53 +0300
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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Guidance on Reporting Protocol Vulnerabilities
To: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz=40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
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Peace,

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 10:59 PM Salz, Rich <rsalz=40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
wrote:

> I would put the "WE don't pay" sentence at the top, right after the intro
> paragraph.
>

Vendors might have their own bug bounties for the protocols they
implement.  Nonprofit organizations might have bounties for protocol
security research, to ensure safer Internet in general.  Looking for those
should be suggested then.  "We don't pay" is a powerful message which, when
it comes down to a typical Initech, generally implies "we don't care".

A list of sponsoring and shepherding organizations offering bounties for
vulnerabilities found in the WG documents might be published for each of
the WGs (just a suggestion).  One might argue then that processing
potential vulnerabilities through the IETF process might be easier together
with points of contact in those vendors who were responsible for document
development and implementation, as opposed to doing it with the
vulnerability researchers directly.  For those researchers, IETF processes
might seem, well, unusual.

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Töma

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