[NNTP] Extension snapshots 3

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Jan 17 13:15:01 PST 2005


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> I was completely underwhelmed by the feedback on these, but since I'm
> going to be offline more often than not over the next two weeks, I went
> ahead and submitted these to the I-D editor.  They should show up in the
> repository early next week.  I have also posted them under
> http://www.oceana.com/ftp/drafts

They looked fine to me.

> The only other change that I added is an outstanding issue to STREAMING
> asking whether or not there are any security issues that need to be
> discussed.  For instance, can a DoS attack be launched on a
> non-streaming server by bombarding it with TAKETHIS?

I don't think there's any issue here that doesn't look like the issues
involved with just about any TCP-based service, so I don't see any need to
make a specific mention regarding STREAMING.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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