Re: Malicious RFC standards ongoing threat

Leif Johansson <leifj@mnt.se> Wed, 01 April 2020 13:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: Malicious RFC standards ongoing threat
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On 2020-04-01 11:05, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 01/04/2020 09:40, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> "Today, a threat actor known as the Internet Engineering Task Force
>> (IETF), aka APT0, is likely to globally strike against networks
>> through the periodic publication of malicious RFCs"
> 
> I like that we're the zero-th APT! - We should ask IANA to
> reserve that:-)

An RFC to setup the APT registry. Only 8 bits needed and the top 127
reserved for experimental use, so called Non-pronouncable APTs.

Next year somebody can follow up with UniAPT.

	Cheers Leif