Early Review of draft-ietf-sfc-control-plane-02
review-ietf-sfc-control-plane-02-secdir-early-meadows-2015-12-10-00
Request | Review of | draft-ietf-sfc-control-plane |
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Requested revision | No specific revision (document currently at 08) | |
Type | Early Review | |
Team | Security Area Directorate (secdir) | |
Deadline | 2015-12-10 | |
Requested | 2015-11-26 | |
Authors | Mohamed Boucadair | |
I-D last updated | 2015-12-10 | |
Completed reviews |
Secdir Early review of -02
by Catherine Meadows
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Rtgdir Early review of -06 by Michael Richardson (diff) Rtgdir Early review of -08 by Jonathan Hardwick |
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Assignment | Reviewer | Catherine Meadows |
State | Completed | |
Request | Early review on draft-ietf-sfc-control-plane by Security Area Directorate Assigned | |
Reviewed revision | 02 (document currently at 08) | |
Result | Ready | |
Completed | 2015-12-10 |
review-ietf-sfc-control-plane-02-secdir-early-meadows-2015-12-10-00
A Service Function Chain is a chain of different services (firewalls, load balancers, etc.) that are stitched together to provide a coordinated service. This document describes requirements for conveying information between Service Function Chaining (SFC) control elements and SFC function elements, and identifies a set of interfaces to interact with SFC-aware elements to establish, maintain or recover service function chains. However, recommendations and specifications of specific protocols are explicitly out of scope. The Security Considerations section of this document identifies the various security threats and requirements. It is very well-thought out and comprehensive. It stops short of recommending any particular techniques (except in the very broad sense, e.g. authentication), but this is very much in the spirit of the rest of the document, whose purpose is to identify requirements rather than to recommend specific solutions. I consider this document READY. Catherine Meadows Naval Research Laboratory Code 5543 4555 Overlook Ave., S.W. Washington DC, 20375 phone: 202-767-3490 fax: 202-404-7942 email: catherine.meadows at nrl.navy.mil