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Re: [rtcweb] Comments on draft-ietf-rtcweb-security-06

Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com> Thu, 20 February 2014 17:13 UTC

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From: Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Magnus Westerlund <
magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think a potential issue that isn't discussed in this document is the
> security threat of driving data volumes into a network beyond ones
> "fair" share. This would simply be to illustrate that communication
> consent is not sufficient, to protect other users of a shared network
> the WebRTC endpoint MUST prevent transmission of data volumes far
> outside of the fair share.
>
>
>
Magnus, I'm not sure why you think that issue should be dealt with in this
document.
This document should deal with cases where a malicious script could send
transmissions
that are not intended or not welcome.  Bbut managing network capacity for
*intended*
and *welcome* transmissions is not a security concern.  It's a congestion
management
issue, at least as I see it.

Am I missing something about your concern?

Ted

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