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Re: [Spud] OS updates on embedded devices

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Fri, 10 April 2015 07:17 UTC

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On 4/9/15 11:52 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:
> Agreed. In particular, "no worse than TCP" is a bit of a low bar. We need to be robust against packet injection attacks.

Everyone wants a pony.  The whole point of that tangent is that there
are many tradeoffs to be considered.  Ruling things out without
considering those tradeoffs would be as inappropriate as demanding them.

Eliot

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