Re: [tcpm] TCP SEQ validation (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-seq-validation-02.txt)

Hi,

I've definitely read the earlier version of this draft (and this is only a repost); odd that I appear to have posted to the list that I also support this...

Tl;dr: +1

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tcpm [mailto:tcpm-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Fernando Gont
> Sent: Donnerstag, 26. März 2015 14:04
> To: tcpm@ietf.org
> Subject: [tcpm] TCP SEQ validation (Fwd: New Version Notification for
> draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-seq-validation-02.txt)
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Thanks to some folks' push over time, and the fact that both co-authors
> happened to find themselves at IETF 92, we've reposted our latests version
> of this I-D (since the previous one had expired), in the hopes of making
> progress.
> 
> Any comments on this rev will be appreciated. Additionally, I'll
> repost/fwd Karen's latest comments on this I-D, which will be the basis
> for the changes in the next rev.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best regards,
> Fernando
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: New Version Notification for
> draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-seq-validation-02.txt
> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:55:46 -0700
> From: internet-drafts@ietf.org
> To: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>, David Borman
> <david.borman@quantum.com>, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>, David
> Borman <david.borman@quantum.com>
> 
> 
> A new version of I-D, draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-seq-validation-02.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Fernando Gont and posted to the IETF
> repository.
> 
> Name:		draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-seq-validation
> Revision:	02
> Title:		On the Validation of TCP Sequence Numbers
> Document date:	2015-03-26
> Group:		Individual Submission
> Pages:		16
> URL:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-seq-validation-
> 02.txt
> Status:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-seq-validation/
> Htmlized:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-seq-validation-02
> Diff:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-seq-validation-02
> 
> Abstract:
>    When TCP receives packets that lie outside of the receive window, the
>    corresponding packets are dropped and either an ACK, RST or no
>    response is generated due to the out-of-window packet, with no
>    further processing of the packet.  Most of the time, this works just
>    fine and TCP remains stable, especially when a TCP connection has
>    unidirectional data flow.  However, there are three scenarios in
>    which packets that are outside of the receive window should still
>    have their ACK field processed, or else a packet war will take place.
>    The aforementioned issues have affected a number of popular TCP
>    implementations, typically leading to connection failures, system
>    crashes, or other undesirable behaviors.  This document describes the
>    three scenarios in which the aforementioned issues might arise, and
>    formally updates RFC 793 such that these potential problems are
>    mitigated.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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