Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sidr-origin-ops-22
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 20 November 2013 03:37 UTC
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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sidr-origin-ops-22
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> The scenario you describe above seems to be one of multiple cases > described in Section 5. we have 42 ways to encode policy. there are more knobs than an antique hardware shop, and someone has asked for and used every one. [ i view this as a bug, not a feature, but i lost these battles many years ago ] i feared trying to enumerate the traps, hence the simple warning. perhaps what could help most is a once sentence definition of a downgrade attack. randy