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Last Call Review of draft-harkins-owe-05
review-harkins-owe-05-genart-lc-yong-2016-12-09-00

Request Review of draft-harkins-owe
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 07)
Type Last Call Review
Team General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) (genart)
Deadline 2017-01-13
Requested 2016-12-05
Authors Dan Harkins , Warren "Ace" Kumari
I-D last updated 2016-12-09
Completed reviews Genart Last Call review of -05 by Lucy Yong (diff)
Secdir Last Call review of -05 by Matthew A. Miller (diff)
Opsdir Last Call review of -05 by Mahesh Jethanandani (diff)
Opsdir Telechat review of -06 by Will (Shucheng) LIU (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Lucy Yong
State Completed
Request Last Call review on draft-harkins-owe by General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) Assigned
Reviewed revision 05 (document currently at 07)
Result Ready w/nits
Completed 2016-12-09
review-harkins-owe-05-genart-lc-yong-2016-12-09-00
The draft is nearly ready for the publication.

Minor comment: Suggest adding this in security considerations: OWE provides
encryption over the wireless medium, i.e., Wi-Fi without authentication. Thus
it does not provide security for end-to-end traffic.  users should still use
application level security such as VPN for end-to-end security. In this case,
use of OWE prevents VPN authentication info. to be spoofed in open public
Wi-Fi. one question: Will a user notices if OWE is used or not?  This may be
important for some users.

nit: r/encryption of the wireless medium/encryption over the wireless medium/