Early Review of draft-ietf-tls-wkech-04
review-ietf-tls-wkech-04-opsdir-early-chown-2024-04-30-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-tls-wkech
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 08)
Type Early Review
Team Ops Directorate (opsdir)
Deadline 2024-04-16
Requested 2024-04-02
Requested by Sean Turner
Authors Stephen Farrell , Rich Salz , Benjamin M. Schwartz
I-D last updated 2025-07-07 (Latest revision 2025-07-07)
Completed reviews Artart Early review of -04 by Martin Thomson (diff)
Opsdir Early review of -04 by Tim Chown (diff)
Dnsdir Early review of -04 by David Blacka (diff)
Comments 
If you can direct this towards a DNSOP person that would be grand!
Assignment Reviewer Tim Chown
State Completed
Request Early review on draft-ietf-tls-wkech by Ops Directorate Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ops-dir/U2NByBiu7BcBrZrM7FY_S2XWqyo
Reviewed revision 04 (document currently at 08)
Result Not ready
Completed 2024-04-30
review-ietf-tls-wkech-04-opsdir-early-chown-2024-04-30-00
Hi,

I have reviewed this document as an early Operations Directorate review.

The document defines a well-known URI that can be used to inform an
authoritative DNS server of an origin's service bindings, for cases where an
API to perform the function is not available.

As per the recent DNS and ART reviews, and even by the author's admission in
the list discussion that I've read, the document is not ready for publication.

The writing style is currently rather note form and thus quite hard to follow.
The idea does seem to have merit, but the text is quite loose in places at the
moment, uses terminology like "split mode" that could be more clearly
explained, and is vague on issues like handling unknown keys returned in JSON.

There's not much I can add beyond what's already been said in the ART and DNS
reviews, but I believe there's scope for the work to be progressed successfully
and I'd encourage the author's to do so.

Tim