@misc{rfc9132, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 9132, howpublished = {RFC 9132}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC9132}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9132}, author = {Mohamed Boucadair and Jon Shallow and Tirumaleswar Reddy.K}, title = {{Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Signal Channel Specification}}, pagetotal = 107, year = 2021, month = sep, 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. This document obsoletes RFC 8782.}, }