[OPSEC] Paul Wouters' No Objection on draft-ietf-opsec-probe-attribution-08: (with COMMENT)

[Paul Wouters via Datatracker <[e-mail]>]

Paul Wouters has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-opsec-probe-attribution-08: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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I have updated my ballot to No Objection.

While I believe it is very dangerous for the content published by probes,
inline or out-of-band, to be used and trusted by the targets to contact
researchers (and not end up at malicious content), on second thought I believe
those who need to look into the probes into their networks causing accidental
(or purposeful) damage are capable to safely look at the various methods of
probe identification data. Furthermore, abuse at scale is unlikely. As such, if
this content helps a target network to quickly contact a real researchers probe
causing unintentional damage, then this document is useful and reduces
unintentional harm on the internet.