%% You should probably cite draft-ietf-dots-signal-channel instead of this I-D. @techreport{reddy-dots-signal-channel-04, number = {draft-reddy-dots-signal-channel-04}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-reddy-dots-signal-channel/04/}, author = {Tirumaleswar Reddy.K and Mohamed Boucadair and Prashanth Patil and Dan Wing}, title = {{Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Signal Channel}}, pagetotal = 31, year = 2016, month = nov, day = 16, abstract = {This document specifies a mechanism that a DOTS client can use to signal that a network is under a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack to an upstream DOTS server so that appropriate mitigation actions are undertaken (including, blackhole, drop, rate-limit, or add to watch list) on the suspect traffic. The document specifies the DOTS signal channel including Happy Eyeballs considerations. The specification of the DOTS data channel is elaborated in a companion document.}, }