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Request Review of draft-thornburgh-adobe-rtmfp
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 10)
Type Telechat Review
Team General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) (genart)
Deadline 2013-07-09
Requested 2013-07-05
Authors Michael C. Thornburgh
I-D last updated 2013-07-09
Completed reviews Genart Last Call review of -07 by Ben Campbell (diff)
Genart Telechat review of -09 by Ben Campbell (diff)
Secdir Last Call review of -07 by Hilarie Orman (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Ben Campbell
State Completed
Request Telechat review on draft-thornburgh-adobe-rtmfp by General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) Assigned
Reviewed revision 09 (document currently at 10)
Result Almost ready
Completed 2013-07-09
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Document: draft-thornburgh-adobe-rtmfp-09
Reviewer: Ben Campbell
Review Date: 2013-07-09
IESG Telechat date: 2013-07-11

Summary: This draft is essentially ready for publication as an informational
RFC. There is one issue from my previous review and related discussion that I
think is almost, but not completely handled. All other concerns from my
previous review have been addressed in this version.

Major issues:

There has been a fair amount of discussion about how this protocol requires a
crypto profile to interoperate, and no such profiles are included, or otherwise
widely published. If this were a standards track draft, I would argue for at
least one mandatory-to-implement profile to be included or referenced. But
since this is intended as an informational RFC that simply describes what
certain products are doing, that's probably okay.  Furthermore, the author
added a paragraph to the introduction specifically calling out the issue, which
I applaud.

But I'd like to see that paragraph go a bit further, and explicitly mention any
such profile needed to interoperate with the commercial products mentioned in
the 2nd paragraph of section 1 has not been made available at the time of RFC
publication, and that implementors should investigate the availability of such
a profile prior to implementing this protocol for the purposes of
interoperating with those products.

Minor issues:

None.

Nits/editorial comments:

None.