Re: Fwd: Security Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

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Keith Moore wrote:
> Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>> If I am reading this correctly the UK Centre for the Protection of
>> National Infrastructure
>> wants the IETF (or some other body) to produce a "companion document to
>> the IETF specifications that discusses the security aspects and
>> implications of the protocols, identifies the existing vulnerabilities,
>> discusses the possible countermeasures, and analyses their respective
>> effectiveness."
> 
> It's difficult to imagine that these things could be adequately captured
> in a static document, for TCP or any other protocol, because new threats
> and countermeasures continue to be identified decades after the base
> protocol is well-settled.  Maybe something like an expanded version of
> the RFC Editor's errata pages would be more appropriate?

One might imagine an informational document which was routinely
obsoleted by future iterations. Keeping it tractable is a product of
necessarily limiting the scope.

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