Last Call Review of draft-ietf-babel-hmac-08
review-ietf-babel-hmac-08-opsdir-lc-romascanu-2019-08-05-00
| Request | Review of | draft-ietf-babel-hmac |
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| Requested rev. | no specific revision (document currently at 12) | |
| Type | Last Call Review | |
| Team | Ops Directorate (opsdir) | |
| Deadline | 2019-07-04 | |
| Requested | 2019-06-20 | |
| Authors | Clara Do, Weronika Kolodziejak, Juliusz Chroboczek | |
| Draft last updated | 2019-08-05 | |
| Completed reviews |
Rtgdir Early review of -00 by Mike McBride
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Secdir Early review of -00 by Robert Sparks (diff) Rtgdir Last Call review of -07 by Mike McBride (diff) Genart Last Call review of -07 by David Schinazi (diff) Secdir Last Call review of -07 by Robert Sparks (diff) Opsdir Last Call review of -08 by Dan Romascanu (diff) |
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| Assignment | Reviewer | Dan Romascanu |
| State | Completed | |
| Review | review-ietf-babel-hmac-08-opsdir-lc-romascanu-2019-08-05 | |
| Posted at | https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ops-dir/yXL5rMDgUF3UyaKNbbX3ek4qH5U | |
| Reviewed rev. | 08 (document currently at 12) | |
| Review result | Ready | |
| Review completed: | 2019-08-05 |
Review
review-ietf-babel-hmac-08-opsdir-lc-romascanu-2019-08-05
This document describes a cryptographic authentication mechanism for the Babel routing protocol that has provisions for replay avoidance. As this is not a new protocol but rather an extension of the existing Babel routing protocol allowing for both unicast and multicast datagrams to be used, a full RFC 5706 review does not apply. The document is Ready from and operational and manageability point of view. It is clearly written and provides all needed information to operators. It states that the deployment can be made incrementally in existing networks where current implementations of Babel are already present. It is important for operators to pay attention at the restrictions of applicability defined in section 1.1. There are also a number of recommendations in the text related to configuration parameters that are of interests not only for implementers but also for operators deploying these extensions - for example in sections 4.3.1.1, and 4.4. I would have preferred these to be included in a separate 'Operational Considerations' section.