Re: [Pce] Alvaro Retana's Comments on draft-ietf-pce-stateful-flags-00: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Alvaro Retana <aretana.ietf@gmail.com> Wed, 22 January 2020 21:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Pce] Alvaro Retana's Comments on draft-ietf-pce-stateful-flags-00: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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On January 21, 2020 at 10:47:36 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote:

Adrian:

Hi!

...
> You are right that there is an existing security issue, and that by not
> publishing this document we perpetuate that issue. As the current Security
> section says " by defining the expected behavior of implementations, this
> document may improve the stability of networks and thus reduce the attack
> surface."
>
> We could expand that text to explain the ways in which the stability might be
> improved and the attack surface reduced. I.e., we could talk more about how
> networks might be unstable without this "fix" and we could outline the
> current attack surfaces. Is that what you're looking for?

Yes, that would be good.

Thanks!!

Alvaro.