Subject: [Spud] Can Malicious users can use PLUS layer to force their traffic through firewalls in the network?

From: Linda Dunbar <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 22:32:18 +0000

Brian, etc,

I have a couple of questions for PLUS:

*        PLUS allowing end points to expose more information to middle boxes. But how do end points know what kind of middle boxes their traffic will traverse through?

*        Malicious users  can use this PLUS layer to force their traffic through firewalls in the network. How can middle boxes trust the bits encoded in the PLUS layer?

Thanks, Linda Dunbar