On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 04:31:30PM +0000, Neil Madden wrote:
> The mitigations of 10.4.1 are related, but the section heading is about 
> (D)DoS attacks. I think this heading needs to be reworded to apply to SSRF 
> attacks too or else add another section with similar mitigations. 
> 
> Mitigation (a) is a bit vague as to what an "unexpected location" is. Perhaps 
> specific wording that it should be a URI that has been pre-registered for the 
> client (and validated at that time) or is otherwise known to be safe (e.g., 
> is a URI scheme controlled by the AS itself as with PAR).

pedantic nit: "URI scheme" is probably not what we want, as the authority
component of the URI (per RFC 3986) seems more likely to match "controlled
by the AS itself"

-Ben

> In addition for this to be effective the AS should not follow redirects when 
> fetching the URI. It's not clear to me whether that is implied by "not 
> perform recursive GET" so it may be worth explicitly spelling that out.
> 

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