Last Call Review of draft-ietf-taps-transports-11
review-ietf-taps-transports-11-secdir-lc-hoffman-2016-09-15-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-taps-transports
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 14)
Type Last Call Review
Team Security Area Directorate (secdir)
Deadline 2016-09-09
Requested 2016-08-25
Authors Gorry Fairhurst , Brian Trammell , Mirja Kühlewind
I-D last updated 2016-09-15
Completed reviews Genart Last Call review of -11 by Robert Sparks (diff)
Genart Telechat review of -12 by Robert Sparks (diff)
Secdir Last Call review of -11 by Paul E. Hoffman (diff)
Opsdir Last Call review of -11 by Linda Dunbar (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Paul E. Hoffman
State Completed
Request Last Call review on draft-ietf-taps-transports by Security Area Directorate Assigned
Reviewed revision 11 (document currently at 14)
Result Has issues
Completed 2016-09-15
review-ietf-taps-transports-11-secdir-lc-hoffman-2016-09-15-00
Greetings. draft-ietf-taps-transports, "Services provided by IETF 


transport protocols and congestion control mechanisms", is an 


informational overview of a large number of transport protocols. It does 


not change any of the protocols, just compares them.






The Security Considerations section says "This document does not specify 


any new features or mechanisms for providing these features", which is 


appropriate and correct. In addition, Section 5, which collects some of 


the comparisons of features, lists security features and says which of 


the transport protocols support them. In that list, it says that replay 


protection is offered by FLUTE/ALC and DTLS, but does not list TLS. That 


seems like an oversight because DTLS and TLS offer similar replay 


semantics. (The rest of the list seems sensible.)




--Paul Hoffman