Re: draft-ietf-impp-pres-01

Graham Klyne <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jan 2003 05:09:49 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.impp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 11:33 AM 1/15/03 -0700, Thanos Diacakis wrote:
>Graham,
>
>Would you mind elaborating on that point in the context of this thread?

You got me there ;-)

My response was somewhat at the level of a conditioned reflex, and I wasn't 
thinking clearly.  In this case, if I'm understanding correctly, it's the 
initiator of a transaction who has to maintain context so the DoS issue 
doesn't arise.

#g
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>Thanks
>
>Thanos
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Graham Klyne" <[email protected]>
>To: "Dave Crocker" <[email protected]>
>Cc: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:41 AM
>Subject: Re: draft-ietf-impp-pres-01
>
>
> > General agreement.
> >
> > If an application is forced to maintain context, that exposes a possible
> > DoS attack.


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