Re: [tcpm] comments on draft-ietf-tcpm-icmp-attacks-05

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Mon, 15 June 2009 02:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] comments on draft-ietf-tcpm-icmp-attacks-05
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Eddy, Wesley M. (GRC-MS00)[Verizon] wrote:

> As both co-chair and TCPM participant, I'm not really
> comfortable with Appendix B of this document which
> reads a lot like an advertisement.  Even though I
> know it's well-intentioned, it seems like we'd set
> a bad precedent if we got into the habit of putting
> sponsor-plugs into the appendices of our documents.
> I don't think we lose anything by leaving that
> appendix out completely.

Let me clarify this one a little bit: When I included this appendix, I
was not working for UK CPNI (formerly NISCC), and there were no plans of
doing so.

However, NISCC was carrying out the vendor coordination process wrt the
ICMP vulnerabilities. For instance, NISCC ended up publishing a
vulnerability advisory stating the vulnerability status of each of the
different vendors.

That was the reason for including that paragraph. -- as I mentioned,
neither NISCC nor CPNI sponsored any of my work on the ICMP attacks
draft (for instance, my affiliation for this I-D is with UTN/FRH, not
with CPNI).

That said, I have no problem with removing this appendix, and adding a
corresponding ack in the "Acknowledgements" section (i.e., different and
shorter text) to NISCC/CPNI for the vendor coordination process they
carried out.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
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