Re: Layers in the WSA (was RE: [Fwd: UN/CEFACT TMG Releases e-Bus ines s Architecture Technical Specification for Public Review]) from Pae Choi on 2003-02-14 (www-ws-arch@w3.org from February 2003)

From: Pae Choi <paechoi@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 05:12:19 -0500
To: "Duane Nickull" <duane@xmlglobal.com>, "Assaf Arkin" <arkin@intalio.com>
Cc: "Burdett, David" <david.burdett@commerceone.com>, <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
Message-ID: <003101c2d411$e221e580$0b01a8c0@dev1>

<snip>
>This was an 
> architectural decision based on the rising popularity of DOS attacks 
> (denial of service).  It is foreseeable that someone could pump in 
> 1000's of bogus messages if they wanted to tie up a specific BSI 
> (Business Service Interface).  The TA team was constrained by making 
> sure we thought of hacker attacks, no single point of failure etc..
> 

DOS may be foreseeable so that it is manageable, but the same will
not be true for DDOS.

Any comments?


Pae

Received on Friday, 14 February 2003 05:14:36 UTC