Re: [tcpm] antispoof document

Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk> Tue, 08 November 2005 01:58 UTC

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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Mark Allman wrote:

> Joe has told us that he has rolled all the comments received into the
> latest version of the anti-spoof document
> (draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-antispoof-02.txt).

I think calling this antispoofing sends the wrong message; it sounds
like you're defending against deliberate attacks, when you may not be.

Can't we call this draft 'Sanity checking of observed TCP endpoint
behaviour', or somesuch?

(This is really about the tone of the doc.)

thanks,

L.

> We are hopeful that we are quite close to a WGLC on this document.
> If you have not yet read it or have not read it recently, please
> take a look at it and raise substantive issues soon.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark and Ted

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