Re: [Taps] Some comments on draft-ietf-taps-impl-12

[Gorry Fairhurst <[e-mail]>]

On 05/08/2022 21:40, Fernando Gont wrote:
> Hi, Gorry,
>
> Thanks for all your responses! In-line....
>
> On 5/8/22 12:00, Gorry Fairhurst wrote:
>>>
>>> Section 4.7.2.:
>>>> On platforms with facilities to create a "virtual connection" for
>>>> connectionless protocols implementations should use these mechanisms
>>>> to minimise the handling of datagrams intended for already created
>>>> Connection objects.
>>>
>>> I don't necessarily disagree, but you should probably elaborate here 
>>> -- e.g., on one hand, "stateless" is good in the sense that you 
>>> don't tie system resources unnecessarily. However, it's also more 
>>> prone to spoofing, to the extent that an attacker might require "a 
>>> lot of work" from a server without even proving that it can receive 
>>> the return packets.
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what you are asking here. What I think was 
>> intended was very similar to the way UDP sockets in BSD can be used 
>> with "connect", is there something else you were expecting to see in 
>> the text?
>
> Looks like I got confused -- my bad, sorry! -- No changes expected here.
>
> Thanks,

OK, no problem we'll cross this one off. Thanks for the review though.

Gorry