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Early Review of draft-ietf-idr-bgp-optimal-route-reflection-21
review-ietf-idr-bgp-optimal-route-reflection-21-secdir-early-dunbar-2020-12-15-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-idr-bgp-optimal-route-reflection-21
Requested revision 21 (document currently at 28)
Type Early Review
Team Security Area Directorate (secdir)
Deadline 2020-12-07
Requested 2020-11-12
Requested by Susan Hares
Authors Robert Raszuk , Bruno Decraene , Christian Cassar , Erik Aman , Kevin Wang
I-D last updated 2020-12-15
Completed reviews Rtgdir Early review of -11 by Daniele Ceccarelli (diff)
Secdir Early review of -21 by Linda Dunbar (diff)
Opsdir Early review of -21 by Dan Romascanu (diff)
Rtgdir Early review of -21 by Daniele Ceccarelli (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Linda Dunbar
State Completed
Request Early review on draft-ietf-idr-bgp-optimal-route-reflection by Security Area Directorate Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/secdir/g9lBnPoeNPuQE2jwvkyP6dtMsSQ
Reviewed revision 21 (document currently at 28)
Result Has nits
Completed 2020-12-15
review-ietf-idr-bgp-optimal-route-reflection-21-secdir-early-dunbar-2020-12-15-00
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 alters how  BGP Route Reflector computes the optimal routes on
behalf of clients. Instead using its own IGP cost to the AS Exit points, the
document describes the steps for RR to compute the optimal route by using 
Clients' position to the AS Exit points. The described method is useful when RR
is centralized.  For deployment with distributed RR closer to the clients, the
described method doesn't have any benefits.

Security Concern:
If RR's information of its clients topology is compromised, then the optimal
paths selected by the RR might not be accurate anymore.

Minor nits:
Page 7: Section 3.2.

"If the routing routing optimization requires ..."
Is it a typo? duplicated word "routing"?

Last sentence: "This needed for use cases ..."
Do you mean "This is needed for use cases ..."

Cheers,
Linda Dunbar