[glue-wg] New version of Section 9

Maarten.Litmaath at cern.ch Maarten.Litmaath at cern.ch
Thu Nov 20 20:02:29 CST 2008


Hi Paul,
a few mini diffs inline.

> [...]
> 
> 9.1.2 Data integrity.
> 
> The information within GLUE has many potential uses, from operational
> to accounting.  How accurate the information is may depend on many
> factors, including the integrity software agents that publish data and
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|                                 of

> the transport used to propagate information.
> 
> [...]
> 
> 9.4.5 Modification
> 
> The ability for an agent to modify information stored in an
> information service is key to providing accurate information.
> However, concrete data models and software implementation should place
> limits on agents so the agent's ability to modify information is
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|                         agents'

> controlled and appropriate.
> 
> 
> 9.4.6 Man-in-the-middle.
> 
> For a system implementing the GLUE 2.0 information mode, a successful
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|                                                    model

> man-in-the-middle attack may lead to arbitrary modification of data
> (see 9.4.5).  It may also allow deleting existing data (see 9.4.4) or
> adding additional data (see 9.4.3).  This may have severe influence on
> the systems based on GLUE information.
> 
> [...]



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