Re: [secdir] SecDir review of draft-ietf-ippm-twamp-session-cntrl-04

Al Morton <acmorton@att.com> Thu, 18 March 2010 12:10 UTC

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:10:44 -0400
To: Tina TSOU <tena@huawei.com>, iesg@ietf.org, draft-ietf-ippm-twamp-session-cntrl@tools.ietf.org, secdir@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [secdir] SecDir review of draft-ietf-ippm-twamp-session-cntrl-04
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At 10:37 PM 3/17/2010, Tina TSOU wrote:
>>At 10:26 PM 3/15/2010, Tina TSOU wrote:
>>>In paragraph 3 of section 4.2, given that there is no change to 
>>>the TWAMP-test packet format, I assume we use the exact TWAMP-test 
>>>packet format as defined RFC5357, so that the SID is not carried 
>>>in the test packets. My question is that how the reflector just 
>>>whether a TWAMP-test packet belongs to the same session/SID or 
>>>not. Since per definition the testing message does not include 
>>>SID, how to differentiate the testing message of different testing 
>>>sessions after multiple testing started?
>>The Request-TW-Session command includes sender address + port
>>and receiver address + port, and this is usually sufficient.
>Can the server identify the corresponding SID based on sender 
>address + port and  receiver address + port?

Yes, the server assigns the SID with all addr+port information in hand.