Re: [tcpm] On TCP option codepoints

Wesley Eddy <wes@mti-systems.com> Tue, 08 October 2013 18:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] On TCP option codepoints
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On 10/8/2013 1:25 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
> FWIW, the IANA page already indicates some of these as known
> unauthorized uses;
> 
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/tcp-parameters/tcp-parameters.xhtml
> 
> AFAICT, IANA doesn't point to details on those unauthorized uses, to
> avoid implicitly endorsing them.
> 


I think saying "unauthorized use by company X's product Y and Z" would
not be mistaken as an endorsement.

I think identifying parties is useful in order to prevent serial abuse
by the same companies and in tracking down specific oddities that
someone might observe in packet traces or otherwise.

-- 
Wes Eddy
MTI Systems