Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-bmwg-ipv6-nd-04: (with COMMENT)

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draft-ietf-bmwg-ipv6-nd-04: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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Just an idle thought... Given what we've learned about tests,
car manufs and diesel engines recently, I wonder if it'd be a
good idea for the security considerations sections of this
kind of RFC to consider how a DUT implementer might cheat?
In this case, I guess there could be a scenario where the
"clear the NC" operation is not really done (for a short
time, after a test pattern has been observed recently) so
that the DUT appears to perform better during tests. I'd
guess that some of the folks designing these tests thought
about some of that, but it might be no harm to start writing
that down as well. (Note this really is just a suggestion,
I'm not complaining at all. OTOH, while it'd be a bit of
work, it might be fun of a kind:-)