> Yes, but it still limits how much damage each peer can do to the node.
> And I think you overstate the ease of distributed denial of service attacks,
> and the relative resource consumption differences on an attacker simulating
> multiple nodes versus one simulating a single node.
So assume
> benefit. Use of MUST (in RFC 2119 sense) invites lazy thought in the protocol
> design itself, where details need not be sold as beneficial to individuals. We
> should say, there is no RFC
> 2119 MUST - there is only self interest.
I think you are misreading the intent behind RFC2119 a bit...
