Re: [OPSEC] RFC 5635 on Remote Triggered Black Hole Filtering with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)

[joel jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com>]

I just wanted to thanks, it took a while but we published our first rfc
under the new charter.

It's been an educational experience for me, but it couldn't have been
done without the contribution and forbearance of the working group
participants.

joel

rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org wrote:
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
> 
>         
>         RFC 5635
> 
>         Title:      Remote Triggered Black Hole Filtering 
>                     with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) 
>         Author:     W. Kumari, D. McPherson
>         Status:     Informational
>         Date:       August 2009
>         Mailbox:    warren at kumari.net, 
>                     danny at arbor.net
>         Pages:      15
>         Characters: 30232
>         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
> 
>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-opsec-blackhole-urpf-04.txt
> 
>         URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5635.txt
> 
> Remote Triggered Black Hole (RTBH) filtering is a popular and
> effective technique for the mitigation of denial-of-service attacks.
> This document expands upon destination-based RTBH filtering by
> outlining a method to enable filtering by source address as well.  This 
> memo provides information for the Internet community.
> 
> This document is a product of the Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure Working Group of the IETF.
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