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Re: [tsvwg] Comments on draft-ietf-tsvwg-transport-encrypt-14

Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Tue, 07 April 2020 15:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tsvwg] Comments on draft-ietf-tsvwg-transport-encrypt-14
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Hi, Tom,

> On Apr 7, 2020, at 7:40 AM, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 6:42 PM Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, Gorry,
>> 
>> I’d suggest as follows (just to follow through on the changes):
>> 
>> 
>> In some uses, an assigned transport port (e.g., 0..49151) can identify the protocol [RFC7605]. However, port information alone is not sufficient to guarantee identification. Applications can use arbitrary ports and do not need to use assigned port numbers. The use of an assigned port number is also not limited to the protocol for which the port is intended.
> 
> Joe,
> 
> RFC7605 acknowledges that port numbers are used to identify the
> application protocol, but clearly doesn't condone the practice. I
> suggest the text should just paraphrase RFC7605:’

I don’t quite understand the above, esp. the use of “condone”. Port numbers are assigned *exactly* for endpoints to identify application protocols *in the absence of any other more explicit coordination* (the draft doesn’t say it so directly, but that’s the summary). 

That said, I was OK with the resolved text I had suggested, with or without the text below - which is also fine.

Joe

> 
> "Port numbers are sometimes used by intermediate devices on a network
> path to interpret transport protocol payload, however any
> interpretation of port numbers -- except at the endpoints -- may be
> incorrect, because port numbers are
> meaningful only at the endpoints [RFC7605]."
> 
> Tom
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Joe
>

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