Re: [Bier] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-bier-bfd-03

[Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]>]

Hi Catherine,
thank you for your review and kind comments.

Regards,
Greg

On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 12:33 PM Catherine Meadows via Datatracker <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Reviewer: Catherine Meadows
> Review result: Ready
>
> I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's
> ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the
> IESG. These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the
> security area directors. Document editors and WG chairs should treat
> these comments just like any other last call comments.
>
> The summary of the review is Ready.
>
> RFC8562 and RFC8563 define methods using Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
> (BFD) for  monitoring  and detecting unicast failure between senders
> (heads)
> and receivers (tails) in multipoint or multicast networks.   This document
> describes procedures for applying these methods in the Bit Index Explicit
> Replication (BIER) [RFC8279] domain.  Most of it is concerned with the
> format
> and use of packet headers.
>
> In the Security Consideration section, the reader is directed to
> I-D.ietf-bier-ping for BIER packet processing security considerations, and
> RFC8562 for general multipoint BFD security considerations. I agree with
> the
> authors’ assertion that this document does not produce any additional
> security
> considerations.
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