The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Analysis of MPTCP residual threats and possible fixes' (draft-ietf-mptcp-attacks-04.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Multipath TCP Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Spencer Dawkins and Martin Stiemerling. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mptcp-attacks/ Technical Summary This document describes an analysis for residual security threats in MPTCP spec and provides some guidances for them. The information in the document is used for updating the current MPTCP spec and discussions for future direction of MPTCP developments. Working Group Summary The analysis and guidances provided by this documents has been discussed in the WG. The problems in MPTCP pointed out by the document have already been addressed in RFC6824bis draft (draft-ietf-mptcp-rfc6824bis). The guidances in the document has also been used for discussions in the WG for future security enhancements of MPTCP. The consensus for this document was clear because of the usefulness of the document. Document Quality The document has been reviewed and discussed by multiple participants in the WG. Personnel Yoshifumi Nishida is the Document Shepherd for this document. The Responsible Area Director is Martin Stiemerling
