[bess] Kathleen Moriarty's Discuss on draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-extranet-04: (with DISCUSS)

["Kathleen Moriarty" <[e-mail]>]

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DISCUSS:
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I just have one question/request to improve the security consideration
section.  The only security mentioned in this draft is what's called a
"security violation", where traffic may go to the incorrect "VPN"
endpoint.  If you are worried about traffic winding up in the wrong
place, why is there no consideration for observing this traffic on the
wire?  Since there is no encryption, wouldn't this also be a security
consideration to call out specifically? 

Mention of the possibility of active attacks that could alter or tamper
with the traffic or passive attacks that could observe the traffic as a
risk due to lack of encryption (confidentiality protection) would help or
a reason why this doesn't matter.

Thanks!