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Re: [tcpm] feedcback on tcp-secure-05

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Thu, 13 July 2006 18:07 UTC

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Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Joe Touch wrote:
>>> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Joe Touch wrote:
>>>> The doc continues to have a detailed but somewhat incomplete discussion
>>>> of the attack scenario; the point of tcp-antispoof was to provide a
>>>> much
>>>> more detailed version of that discussion that should not be
>>>> recapitulated but rather cited.
>>>
>>> You couldn't just simply cite it without any summary though, as
>>> antispoof is heading Informational, and doing so would likely require a
>>> down-ref.
>>
>> It's not a down ref to cite an informational document informationally ;-)
> 
> Sure.  But an Informative reference needs to refer to _additional_
> information, not _replace_ information.  So, with an informative
> reference you will need to have at least short summary (a paragraph) of
> the issues.

Agreed, though we're talking about background and motivation, which
isn't as critical.

Joe


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