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Re: [MLS] Virtual Interim minutes

Benjamin Beurdouche <benjamin.beurdouche@inria.fr> Wed, 29 January 2020 23:48 UTC

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> #285 - Get rid of ignored proposals.
> I had added "ignored" to the Commit message to allow the Committer to indicate Proposals that they had received, but was not committing.  Brendan makes a plausible case in the PR that this distinction is not worthwhile, and this cleans it up.  Please speak up now if you have a concern / objection to merging this PR.

I am obviously against allowing a network attacker to arbitrarily truncate the proposals from someone. The explicit acknowledgement of ignored proposals lets the sender of the proposal know that the committer actually received, processed and discarded the proposal. This is obviously way better that not knowing if the proposal even reached the committer.

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