Re: Kathleen Moriarty's No Objection on draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-08: (with COMMENT)

Barry Leiba <[email protected]> Sat, 9 Jan 2016 17:27:04 -0500
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> We are fine with the proposed text. We will update the draft with this
> text and release a new version (10).

Great; thanks.  I'd like to hear from a couple of others to make sure
it's OK with a few more people.  Alexey, SM, can the two of you weigh
in?

Barry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: imapext [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Leiba
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 7:31 PM
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> Subject: Re: [imapext] Kathleen Moriarty's No Objection on draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-08: (with COMMENT)
>
> Authors and working group:
> In light of this discussion, I suggest that we replace the content of the Security Considerations section with this:
>
> NEW
>    This extension provides additional information that cooperative
>    clients can use as an optimization, and does not introduce new
>    security concerns.  This extension does not address abusive clients
>    that intend to consume server resources, and servers will still have
>    to take action to disconnect and/or restrict access to clients that
>    exhibit abusive behavior.
> END
>
> Please comment, and if there are no objections, please make the change in another revision.  Thanks.
>
> Barry
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Kathleen Moriarty <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I was just suggesting that you could cut out the scenario, leave the
>> last sentence and say it's because of a possible attack on resources,
>> 'resources' being a short way of describing the scenario laid out.  If
>> some other attack comes out that is mitigated in a similar way that
>> uses 'resources' in another way, you are covered.  It also gets rid of
>> the extra text that I don't see as necessary.  But leave it if you
>> think it's fine.
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