Background on the 3x anti-amplification limit

John Mattsson <john.mattsson@ericsson.com> Tue, 27 July 2021 12:42 UTC

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From: John Mattsson <john.mattsson@ericsson.com>
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Subject: Background on the 3x anti-amplification limit
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Hi,

I think it is great that QUIC has such a strict anti-amplification limit. I hope this will be an inspiration for the rest of the IETF.  DDoS attacks is a real problem and IETF and other SDOs has often been a bit naive when it comes to amplification attacks.

I am currently working on a draft suggesting that CoAP shoud do something similar as QUIC.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mattsson-core-coap-attacks/

Was there any discussion behind the specific 3x limit?

Cheers,
John