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Re: [Pearg] I-D Action: draft-irtf-pearg-censorship-04.txt

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 24 July 2020 13:09 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <hall@isoc.org>
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 09:46:21PM +0000,
 Joseph Lorenzo Hall <hall@isoc.org> wrote 
 a message of 213 lines which said:

> Would you recommend “it is possible”? And to what extent do we know
> that people implement what RFC 5961 describes?

My guess (just a guess) is that all TCP stacks do it for a long
time. I'm not aware of hard data about that.

> > This in-window recommendation is important, as if it is
> > implemented it allows for successful Blind RST Injection attacks
> > [Netsec-2011].
> 
> > Not clear.
> 
> Due to the RFC 5961 comment above? Do you want us to put in a “(Note
> that if [a network? a server?] implements the protections against
> blind TCP injections in RFC 5961 [it is much harder to accomplish]”
> or something?

It's simply that I cannot parse the english text in the draft.

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