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Early Review of draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ct-30
review-ietf-idr-bgp-ct-30-secdir-early-nystrom-2024-04-07-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ct
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 33)
Type Early Review
Team Security Area Directorate (secdir)
Deadline 2024-04-04
Requested 2024-03-20
Requested by Susan Hares
Authors Kaliraj Vairavakkalai , Natrajan Venkataraman
I-D last updated 2024-04-07
Completed reviews Rtgdir Early review of -18 by Jonathan Hardwick (diff)
Secdir Early review of -18 by Magnus Nyström (diff)
Opsdir Early review of -19 by Bo Wu (diff)
Secdir Early review of -19 by Magnus Nyström (diff)
Tsvart Early review of -27 by Olivier Bonaventure (diff)
Secdir Early review of -30 by Magnus Nyström (diff)
Rtgdir Early review of -09 by Mohamed Boucadair (diff)
Opsdir Early review of -12 by Bo Wu (diff)
Comments
Could the previous SEC-DIR reviewer (Magnus Nyström) look at the latest version? 
The document is ready to submission to IESG except for this security issue.
Assignment Reviewer Magnus Nyström
State Completed
Request Early review on draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ct by Security Area Directorate Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/secdir/alzGCJYNS16NyBsp6wyDhQi-QWY
Reviewed revision 30 (document currently at 33)
Result Has nits
Completed 2024-04-07
review-ietf-idr-bgp-ct-30-secdir-early-nystrom-2024-04-07-00
Comparing with my original review (-18) the authors have addressed my concerns.
There is one remaining, probably smaller, issue: The Security Considerations
section states: "In order to mitigate the risk of the diversion of traffic from
its intended destination, existing BGPsec solution could be extended and
supported for this SAFI." - was this meant to say "existing BGPsec solutions"
or "the existing BGP solution"? Also, it isn't clear how BGPsec should be
extended - and if it would provide any substantial benefit over the mechanisms
described herein (the remainder of this paragraph states: "The restriction of
the aplicability of this SAFI to its intended well-defined scope limits the
likelihood of traffic diversions. Furthermore, as long as the filtering and
appropriate configuration mechanisms discussed previously are applied
diligently, risk of the diversion of the traffic is significantly mitigated.").