Joe, On 01/24/2013 04:35 PM, Joe Touch wrote: > FWIW, this document includes text that somewhat defeats the previous > recommendations of TCPM regarding RFC5927. > > RFC5927 includes specific text indicating that the techniques described > are being documented, but that the TCP standard was NOT being changed to > include those ICMP validation checks. > > This document states that: > > Many implementations fail to perform validation checks on the > received ICMPv6 error messages, as recommended in Section 5.2 of > [RFC4443] and [RFC5927]. Are we fine if I remove "and [RFC5927]"? -- Because RFC4443 does recommend that ICMPv6 messages be validated. > I.e., the second RFC does NOT recommend changes; it documents them. This > document should be VERY carefully reviewed to ensure that it does not > undo the previous TCPM concerns about these techniques. We can remove "and [RFC5927]" or change it to "...Section 5.2 of [RFC4443] and documented in [RFC5927]" Thoughts? Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fgont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492