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Last Call Review of draft-ietf-quic-recovery-32
review-ietf-quic-recovery-32-secdir-lc-piper-2020-11-02-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-quic-recovery
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 34)
Type Last Call Review
Team Security Area Directorate (secdir)
Deadline 2020-11-16
Requested 2020-10-21
Authors Jana Iyengar , Ian Swett
I-D last updated 2020-11-02
Completed reviews Genart Last Call review of -32 by Vijay K. Gurbani (diff)
Secdir Last Call review of -32 by Derrell Piper (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Derrell Piper
State Completed
Request Last Call review on draft-ietf-quic-recovery by Security Area Directorate Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/secdir/RqyG2o24GbkCTXx09optaCq3Lyk
Reviewed revision 32 (document currently at 34)
Result Ready
Completed 2020-11-02
review-ietf-quic-recovery-32-secdir-lc-piper-2020-11-02-00
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.

The summary of the review is: Ready, with an optional nit.

This document is QUIC's Loss Detection and Congestion Control and is part of
QUIC Last Call.

Pp. 7, "after the epoch starts is acknowledged" should maybe be singular,
unless the intent is literal and I'm missing what a "starts" is.

There's no explicit security going on here, other than in the larger picture
of QUIC itself, namely that in QUIC-TLS and QUIC-TRANSPORT; this is only its
congestion control.  However, Security Considerations correctly highlights
some of the major traffic analysis concerns with QUIC and congestion control
in general, and there are some, but these are not unique to QUIC, nor would
they likely be addressed inside of congestion control, so this is okay.  It
seems well written and based on a practical understanding of existing TCP
congestion control along with current academic research on this topic.

Derrell