Sandra Murphy wrote:

>> Details of how to handle various error cases are described in
>> draft-ietf-sidr-rpki-manifests. In this case, in section 6.5:
>>
>>>    If there exist files listed on the manifest that do not appear in the
>>>    repository, then these objects are likely to have been improperly
>>>    (via malice or accident) deleted from the manifest.  A primary
> 
>                                                 ^^^^^^^^
>                                                repository?

I think so :)

>>>    purpose of manifests is to detect such deletions.  Therefore, in such
>>>    a case this situation should result in a warning to the effect that:
>>>    "The following files that should have been present in the repository
>>>    at <pub point name>, are missing <file list>.  This indicates an
>>>    attack against this publication point, or the repository, or an error
>>>    by the publisher."
> 
> Yes, this is what I was trying to say - that the stated purpose of the
> manifest is to detect missing items, so permitting parital downloads of
> the list of objects would be counter to the purpose of the manifest.
> IMHO, of course.

Yes, a partial manifest is useless. You can't validate it.

Rob

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