On 02/03/16 09:16, Alexander Mayrhofer wrote:
> Stephen,
> 
> thanks for the COMMENT. What about simply removing "significantly" from the
> sentence above? Would that address your concerns? I do admit English is not
> my first language, so i'm open for suggestions :)

That's better yes.

Cheers,
S.

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> Alex
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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
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>> Stephen Farrell has entered the following ballot position for
>> draft-ietf-dprive-edns0-padding-02: Yes
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>>
>> - intro: "significantly hampering" is over-stated, even though you
>> do limit that to size-based correlation as a form of traffic
>> analysis. This is a basic mechanism (a fine thing) but by itself
>> does not counter traffic analysis that much. See e.g. [1] for a
>> relevant study.  Referencing [1] and/or [2] and saying that this
>> mechanism isn't itself enough would be a good improvement.  ([2] is
>> a colleague's work btw, but I think is good:-). Neither [1] nor [2]
>> are DNS-specific, not sure if there are publications that cover
>> that.  Without such a caveat, people might over-claim and not do the
>> right things.  Happy to help craft words for that if you want.
>>
>>    [1] http://kpdyer.com/publications/oakland2012-peekaboo.pdf
>>    [2] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.2087v2.pdf
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>> - typo: "meta data of could still"
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