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Early Review of draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile-27
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Request Review of draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 29)
Type Early Review
Team General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) (genart)
Deadline 2026-07-03
Requested 2026-06-05
Requested by Luigi Iannone
Authors Job Snijders , Alexander Azimov , Eugene Uskov , Randy Bush , Russ Housley , Ben Maddison
I-D last updated 2026-08-03 (Latest revision 2026-07-29)
Completed reviews Secdir Early review of -26 by Rich Salz (diff)
Bgpdir Early review of -27 by Srihari R. Sangli (diff)
Artart Early review of -27 by Gavin Brown (diff)
Genart Early review of -27 by Peter E. Yee (diff)
Comments
This document is part of a cluster of documents thightly related, namely:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidrops-8210bis/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-verification/

If possible, it would make sense that the assigned reviewer for this document is willing to review the other two documents.
The plan is to have early reviews for all the three documents before IETF 126.
Thanks
Assignment Reviewer Peter E. Yee
State Completed
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Reviewed revision 27 (document currently at 29)
Result Ready w/nits
Completed 2026-07-19
review-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile-27-genart-early-yee-2026-07-19-00
Document: draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile
Title: A Profile for Autonomous System Provider Authorization
Reviewer: Peter Yee
Review result: Ready with Nits

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Document: draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile-27
Reviewer: Peter Yee
Review Date: 2026-07-19
IETF LC End Date:
IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat

Summary:

This draft specifies an Autonomous System Provider Authorization object that is
protected by CMS. The object allows a customer Autonomous System to specify its
Provider Autonomous System(s).

Major issues: None

Minor issues:

Page 3, 1st paragraph after lettered items, 1st sentence: I’m having troubles
understanding how this specification constitutes a profile. A profile of what?
As far as I can see, it specifies an object, its semantics, and related
procedures. Admittedly, that object ends up inside of a CMS wrapper, but I
don’t really think of that as making it a profile of a CMS-protected object. To
be clear, this is a really minor issue, and I could be wrong about what
constitutes a profile.

Nits/editorial comments:

Page 3, 4th paragraph after lettered items, 1st sentence: change “CMS [RFC5652]
protected” to “CMS-protected [RFC 5652]”. Change “content type” to
“content-type”.

Page 6, section 3.3, 1st bullet item: change “CustomerASID” to “customerASID”.

Page 6, section 3.3, 4th bullet item: change “An” to “A”.

Page 7, section 5.2, 1st sentence: Should “CAs” be “CAS”? I’m unclear which
entity does the signing, but if it is the customer AS, then it should be “CAS”.

Page 8, 1st paragraph, 3rd sentence: insert “as” between “CAS” and “invalid”.
Append a comma after “e.g.”