Modified the PI-only matching case in 4.4.2 as follows:
2. Only the Peer-Identity matches: this may be either a new
interface on an existing peer, or a changed address mapping
behind a NAT. These should be rare events, so the expense of
a new association setup is acceptable. Another possibility is
one node using another node's Peer-Identity, for example as
some kind of attack. Because the Peer-Identity is used only
for this multiplexing process, the only consequence this has
is to require a new association setup, and this is considered
in Section 8.4.
and the text in 8.4 about DoS attacks on messaging associations is modified as
follows (changed text at the end of the paragraph):
Once a node has decided to establish routing state, there may still
be transport and security state to be established between peers.
This state setup is also vulnerable to denial of service attacks.
GIST relies on the implementations of the lower layer protocols that
make up messaging associations to mitigate such attacks. In the
current specification, the querying node is always the one wishing to
establish a messaging association, so it is the responding node that
needs to be protected. It is possible for an attacking node to
execute these protocols legally to set up large numbers of
associations that were never used, and responding node
implementations MAY use rate-limiting or other techniques to control
the load in such cases.
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