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Re: BCP38 making it work, solving problems


From: Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:17:12 -0700


At 12:01 PM 10/13/04 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
Trusting the source when it says that its packets aren't evil might be sub-optimal. Evaluation of evilness is best left up to the receiver.

Likely true. Next question is whether the receiver can really determine that in real time. For some things, yes, but for many things it is not as obvious to me.

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