Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tcpm-icmp-attacks (ICMP attacks against TCP) to Informational RFC

From: RJ Atkinson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:36:58 -0500

On 01  Feb 2010, at 08:40 , The IESG wrote:
> The IESG has received a request from the TCP Maintenance and Minor 
> Extensions WG (tcpm) to consider the following document:
> 
> - 'ICMP attacks against TCP '
>   <draft-ietf-tcpm-icmp-attacks-10.txt> as an Informational RFC
> 
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
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I have reviewed this document and I support publishing it as
an Informational RFC.  F. Gont has done a tremendous public
service in putting together this (and predecessor) documents
with risk analyses for various widely deployed protocols.

Ran