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Last Call Review of draft-ietf-cdni-media-type-04
review-ietf-cdni-media-type-04-secdir-lc-kivinen-2015-10-08-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-cdni-media-type
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 06)
Type Last Call Review
Team Security Area Directorate (secdir)
Deadline 2015-10-13
Requested 2015-10-01
Authors Kevin J. Ma
I-D last updated 2015-10-08
Completed reviews Genart Last Call review of -03 by Francis Dupont (diff)
Genart Telechat review of -04 by Francis Dupont (diff)
Secdir Last Call review of -04 by Tero Kivinen (diff)
Opsdir Last Call review of -04 by Menachem Dodge (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Tero Kivinen
State Completed
Request Last Call review on draft-ietf-cdni-media-type by Security Area Directorate Assigned
Reviewed revision 04 (document currently at 06)
Result Has nits
Completed 2015-10-08
review-ietf-cdni-media-type-04-secdir-lc-kivinen-2015-10-08-00
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 document allocates new media type for genera purpose content
delivery network interconnection protocol. It is general media type
which can be used to transmit whatever between CDNs. The actual format
of the content depends on the mandatory ptype parameter.

This document does not include separate Security considerations
section, but there is security considerations part of the section 2.1
which describes the media type itself.

As this is general purpose media type which can be used to transfer
anything, the security considerations section is quite vague, just
pointing out that the individual CDNI interface specifications need to
specify the security considerations for the ptypes used. Perhaps the
security considerations section could mention that as this is generic
media type, it can easily used to transfer data out from the CDN
network without anybody noticing as firewalls will most likely just
see application/cdni, and do not look at the ptype itself.

Nits:

The ptype parameter defines ptype-char as follows:

        ptype-char = %x21 / %23-3A / %x3C / %x3E-7E

I think there is 'x' missing from the "%23-3A", i.e. it should be
"%x23-3A".

I think this document is ready with nits. 
-- 
kivinen at iki.fi