Last Call Review of draft-gont-intarea-obsolete-eid-option-01
review-gont-intarea-obsolete-eid-option-01-secdir-lc-harkins-2012-11-18-00
Request | Review of | draft-gont-intarea-obsolete-eid-option |
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Requested revision | No specific revision (document currently at 02) | |
Type | Last Call Review | |
Team | Security Area Directorate (secdir) | |
Deadline | 2012-11-13 | |
Requested | 2012-10-11 | |
Authors | Fernando Gont | |
I-D last updated | 2012-11-18 | |
Completed reviews |
Secdir Last Call review of -01
by Dan Harkins
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Assignment | Reviewer | Dan Harkins |
State | Completed | |
Request | Last Call review on draft-gont-intarea-obsolete-eid-option by Security Area Directorate Assigned | |
Reviewed revision | 01 (document currently at 02) | |
Result | Ready | |
Completed | 2012-11-18 |
review-gont-intarea-obsolete-eid-option-01-secdir-lc-harkins-2012-11-18-00
Hello, I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG. These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security area directors. Document editors and WG chairs should treat these comments just like any other last call comments. This draft instructs IANA to obsolete an entry in the v6 "Destination Options and Hop-by-Hop Options" registry". That's it. Strip away the boilerplate and this draft is about as long as the secdir review boilerplate I added above. The option was used by the Nimrod routing architecture but, apparently, wasn't deployed, hence the instruction to obsolete it. There are no security issues with this draft and nothing for the ADs to pay close attention to. My only suggested change would be entirely editorial and that is to remove the "e.g" in the following sentence from the Security Considerations: "[F]ormally deprecating this option may serve as a basis for e.g. providing advice about filtering packets containing such option (in a similar way to [I-D.ietf-opsec-ip-options-filtering] for the IPv4 case)." It seems to me that "e.g" is superfluous; the sentence stands without it. On the other hand, if there is some general class of behavior to which this example belongs then say that this deprecation serves as a basis for that class of behavior and give this specific example. regards, Dan.