@misc{rfc8782, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 8782, howpublished = {RFC 8782}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC8782}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8782}, author = {Tirumaleswar Reddy.K and Mohamed Boucadair and Prashanth Patil and Andrew Mortensen and Nik Teague}, title = {{Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Signal Channel Specification}}, pagetotal = 100, year = 2020, month = may, abstract = {This document specifies the Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) signal channel, a protocol for signaling the need for protection against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks to a server capable of enabling network traffic mitigation on behalf of the requesting client. A companion document defines the DOTS data channel, a separate reliable communication layer for DOTS management and configuration purposes.}, }