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Re: [tcpm] WG Last Call for ICMP Attacks

"Smith, Donald" <Donald.Smith@qwest.com> Thu, 03 September 2009 19:36 UTC

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From: "Smith, Donald" <Donald.Smith@qwest.com>
To: 'Fernando Gont' <fernando@gont.com.ar>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:33:20 -0600
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Subject: Re: [tcpm] WG Last Call for ICMP Attacks
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(coffee != sleep) & (!coffee == sleep)
Donald.Smith@qwest.com gcia   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fernando Gont [mailto:fernando@gont.com.ar] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:28 PM
> To: Smith, Donald
> Cc: 'toby.moncaster@bt.com'; 'tcpm@ietf.org'; 
> 'david.borman@windriver.com'
> Subject: Re: [tcpm] WG Last Call for ICMP Attacks
> 
> Hello, Donnald,
> 
> Comments inline....
> 
> 
> >>>> Grammer and minor correction for elicited: Many TCP
> >> implementations
> >>>> have incorporated a validation check to make TCP react
> >> only to those
> >>>> ICMP error messages that appear to have been caused by
> >> segments that
> >>>> were "in-flight" to the destination system.
> >>> Does "elicited" sound bad? (english as a second language
> >> here, sorry)
> > Not bad there is an implication that I don't think you intended.
> 
> That pointed out by Toby?
Yes elicited tends to imply "caused by".
Adding appear to the statement as Toby did makes it more correct.

> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Kind regards,
> -- 
> Fernando Gont
> e-mail: fernando@gont.com.ar || fgont@acm.org
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