Last Call Review of draft-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations-04
review-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations-04-opsdir-lc-bradner-2017-01-10-00
Request | Review of | draft-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations |
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Requested revision | No specific revision (document currently at 05) | |
Type | Last Call Review | |
Team | Ops Directorate (opsdir) | |
Deadline | 2016-12-26 | |
Requested | 2016-11-28 | |
Authors | Julien ÉLIE | |
I-D last updated | 2017-01-10 | |
Completed reviews |
Secdir Last Call review of -01
by David Mandelberg
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Genart Last Call review of -01 by Jouni Korhonen (diff) Opsdir Last Call review of -04 by Scott O. Bradner (diff) Genart Telechat review of -03 by Jouni Korhonen (diff) Genart Telechat review of -04 by Jouni Korhonen (diff) |
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Assignment | Reviewer | Scott O. Bradner |
State | Completed | |
Request | Last Call review on draft-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations by Ops Directorate Assigned | |
Reviewed revision | 04 (document currently at 05) | |
Result | Ready | |
Completed | 2017-01-10 |
review-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations-04-opsdir-lc-bradner-2017-01-10-00
This is an OPS-DIR review of “Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS)in the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)” (draft-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations-03) This draft proposes updates to RFC 4642 to improve the security of NNTP. I did not know that NNTP was still in much use, but if it is, then this draft proposes some useful updates to RFC 4642. I do not see any particular operational issues with the proposals but I do not know why this draft exists. Most of what this draft does is to propose specific wording changes for RFC 4642. What I do not understand is why the changes are not done by making a 4642bis and publishing a new RFC that obsoletes RFC 4642 - it would be a lot easier on anyone who wants to implement the technology to not have to mentally merge two different RFCs Scott