Chris, On 2011-11-14 16:06, Christopher Morrow wrote: > Just a question about this idea in general, if one of the reasons to > do it is to save middleboxes from doing 'lots of work' ... wouldn't a > smart attacker just not put this header in? and then choke the > middleboxes?
I could use that argument against *any* optimisation, couldn't I? DoS is hard to defeat. > > what's the incentive for a source to add this header? (it's not in > their interest to make things 'easier' is it?) Well, you can argue that it's a small price to get a small improvement in response time from busy servers, but I agree, this would be a matter of persuading stack vendors to do it because it's good to do it. Brian > -chris > (interesting discussion at the meeting, thanks!) > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
