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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

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 17 December 2020 06:58 UTC

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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 17/12/20 02:19, Christian Huitema wrote:
[....]
>>
>> What am I missing?
> 
> In short, you are missing the tons of discussions that went into that 
> specification, taking into account the needs of a variety of 
> environments including for example server farms. You are also picking 
> out the Initial Connection ID out of context -- for protocol reasons, it 
> is not generated in the same way as other connection IDs.

I find it curious that in a group that does protocol specifications, 
valid questions are "answered" with "we have a lot of reasons for that" 
-- of which you don't provide any concrete one. (and if there were, they 
should be in the protocol specification).

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
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