Deb Cooley has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-tls-dtls-rrc-18: No Record

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Thanks to Mike Ounsworth for their secdir review.

Section 2, para 3:  The definition of 'anti-amplification limit' is incomplete.
 Three times the amount of data received compared to what?  In RFC 9000, the
definition is as follows:  "Therefore, after receiving packets from an address
that is not yet validated, an endpoint MUST limit the amount of data it sends
to the unvalidated address to three times the amount of data received from that
address. This limit on the size of responses is known as the anti-amplification
limit."  I think you need to add '...means limiting data sent to an unvalidated
address to three times the amount of data received...'.  [at this point the
requirement in Section 6 makes more sense]

Section 5, off-path attacker bullet:  '...copies of the observed packets...',
does this mean replay packets? I'm not sure what is more widely understood. 
Possibly add a 'copy' or 'replay' row to Figure 2?

Section 8, para 2:  Please reword the last two sentences.  Perhaps something
like 'To prevent this,...using a reliable source of entropy.  See Appendix C.1
of RFC 8446 for guidance.'  [Note RFC 4086 is pretty old, most O/S have
reasonable RNGs (which is what Appendix C.1 states)]



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