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Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: <draft-gont-numeric-ids-sec-considerations-06.txt> (Security Considerations for Transient Numeric Identifiers Employed in Network Protocols) to Best Current Practice

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Fri, 18 December 2020 00:20 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
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Cc: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>, Last Call <last-call@ietf.org>, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, "\"Iván Arce (Quarkslab)\"" <iarce@quarkslab.com>, draft-gont-numeric-ids-sec-considerations@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: <draft-gont-numeric-ids-sec-considerations-06.txt> (Security Considerations for Transient Numeric Identifiers Employed in Network Protocols) to Best Current Practice
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On Dec 17, 2020, at 6:47 PM, Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> wrote:
> What you add as a requirement ends up excluding as a platform. That’s the antithesis of Internet design.
> 
> The point is that these are tradeoffs of *implementation*, and should not be described as protocol deficiencies.

It sounds like what you’re saying is that it’s a SHOULD, not a MUST?

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