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Re: [tcpm] TCPM and draft-ietf-tcpm-icmp-attacks

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Thu, 18 February 2010 19:19 UTC

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Jari Arkko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This document was recently in IESG review. My opinion is that the
> document should be approved as an RFC. Thanks for writing it.
> 
> However, I would like to note the following text from the document:
> 
> The consensus of the TCPM WG (TCP Maintenance and
> Minor Extensions Working Group) was to document this widespread
> implementation of nonstandard TCP behavior but to not change the TCP
> standard.
> 
> This would seem to imply that the TCPM WG has decided to deviate from
> the old IETF operating principle of "rough consensus and running code".

The short answer is that there wasn't rough consensus for these changes
in the WG, as explained in the note in the text.

Joe

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