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Last Call Review of draft-ietf-savnet-intra-domain-problem-statement-10
review-ietf-savnet-intra-domain-problem-statement-10-secdir-lc-schwartz-2025-01-21-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-savnet-intra-domain-problem-statement
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 26)
Type IETF Last Call Review
Team Security Area Directorate (secdir)
Deadline 2025-01-17
Requested 2025-01-03
Requested by Jim Guichard
Authors Lancheng Qin , Dan Li , Jianping Wu , Mingqing(Michael) Huang , Nan Geng
I-D last updated 2026-06-09 (Latest revision 2026-06-01)
Completed reviews Rtgdir IETF Last Call review of -09 by Linda Dunbar (diff)
Secdir IETF Last Call review of -10 by Benjamin M. Schwartz (diff)
Opsdir IETF Last Call review of -10 by Sarah Banks (diff)
Artart IETF Last Call review of -09 by Robert Sparks (diff)
Genart IETF Last Call review of -10 by Tim Evens (diff)
Opsdir IETF Last Call review of -21 by Chongfeng Xie (diff)
Secdir IETF Last Call review of -21 by Benjamin M. Schwartz (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Benjamin M. Schwartz
State Completed
Request IETF Last Call review on draft-ietf-savnet-intra-domain-problem-statement by Security Area Directorate Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/secdir/JRgTvc3nUzjnOl-kLE0UqFRSSYo
Reviewed revision 10 (document currently at 26)
Result Ready
Completed 2025-01-21
review-ietf-savnet-intra-domain-problem-statement-10-secdir-lc-schwartz-2025-01-21-00
This draft is clearly written (barring some minor sentence structure and word
choice issues) and covers the topic well.  However, I do not see any value in
publishing it as an RFC.  As a "gap analysis", its value was principally in
motivating the formation of a working group (i.e. SAVNET) and helping the
participants to agree on their own terminology.  This purpose has already been
achieved, and is not enhanced by publication.

Publishing the document in its current form might even have negative value,
since the content will immediately be incorrect when
draft-ietf-savnet-inter-domain-architecture is published and the "gap" is
closed.

My preference would be to fold this content into that draft, or retitle it
"Purpose of the SAVNET Architecture" and adjust the content to present an
explicitly historical note on why draft-ietf-savnet-inter-domain-architecture
was needed.

Nit:

> it is difficult to require all access networks to deploy SAV simultaneously

Please remove "simultaneously".  The difficulty here is not in _synchronizing_
the deployment; it is merely in achieving it.