Re: [bess] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-mib-11: (with COMMENT)

Glenn Mansfield Keeni <glenn@cysols.com> Sat, 15 September 2018 02:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [bess] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-mib-11: (with COMMENT)
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Dear Tsuno,
      I agree with Benjamin Kaduk's comment on the Security
Considerations section. I understand the following sentence copied
verbatim from The Security Guidelines for IETF MIB modules
  >>     Some of the readable objects in this MIB module (i.e., objects
  >>     with a MAX-ACCESS other than not-accessible) may be considered
  >>     sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments.
is causing the confusion. The scope of the readable objects restricted
to "objects with a MAX-ACCESS other than not-accessible" is inadequate
here.

Please change the "i.e" to "e.g.". That will clear the confusion and
make the statement accurate.

Glenn

On 2018/09/12 10:49, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> Benjamin Kaduk has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-mib-11: No Objection
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> A general comment that we've been making on lots of documents in this
> space is that it would be nice to be in a place where the acronym "VPN"
> implies transport encryption.  It's unclear that it's appropriate to request
> changes to this specific document toward that end, though.
> 
> Perhaps I'm confused, but "mvpnAdvtPeerAddr" appears in the security
> considerations in the list of address-related objects that may have
> privacy/security impact.  That list is predicated on being "objects with a
> MAX-ACCESS other than not-accessible", but all the instances of
> mvpnAdvtPeerAddr I found in the body text were marked as not-accessible.
> Similarly for mvpnMrouteCmcastGroupAddr, mvpnMrouteCmcastSourceAddrs,
> mvpnMrouteNextHopGroupAddr, mvpnMrouteNextHopSourceAddrs, and
> mvpnMrouteNextHopAddr.  (Incidentally, why ar mvpnMrouteCmcastSourceAddrs
> and mvpnMrouteNextHopSourceAddrs plural with the final 's'?)
> 
> Perhaps using subsections to separate the various tables' descriptions
> would aid readability.
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