Re: [tsvwg] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tsvwg-udp-options-22.txt

[Tom Herbert <[e-mail]>]

Form the draft:

"If an option other than these occurs more than once, a receiver MUST
interpret other than these occurs more than once, a receiver MUST
interpret
only the first instance of that option and MUST ignore all others."

I don't think this is a preferred behavior. Since all options after
the first are ignored, I don't see how any useful work can be done by
sending the same option to more than once. Furthermore, a sender would
KNOW that multiple instances of the same option would always be
ignored, and I don't see any other purpose for doing that than DOS
attack. Note that ignoring repeated options is not processing cost, in
this case it's actually fairly involved since we need to have a
conditional check and probably set a bitmap for every option.

I think the behavior should either be to process all the copies of the
option (repeated occurrences of the same option might be deemed useful
someday), or treat a repeated options as malformed UDP options

Tom


On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 8:28 PM <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories. This Internet-Draft is a work item of the Transport Area Working
> Group (TSVWG) WG of the IETF.
>
>    Title           : Transport Options for UDP
>    Author          : Joe Touch
>    Filename        : draft-ietf-tsvwg-udp-options-22.txt
>    Pages           : 44
>    Date            : 2023-06-09
>
> Abstract:
>    Transport protocols are extended through the use of transport header
>    options. This document extends UDP by indicating the location,
>    syntax, and semantics for UDP transport layer options.
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-udp-options/
>
> There is also an htmlized version available at:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-udp-options-22
>
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-tsvwg-udp-options-22
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
>
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