Re: [COSE] Éric Vyncke's No Objection on draft-ietf-cose-cwt-claims-in-headers-09: (with COMMENT)

Paul Wouters <paul.wouters@aiven.io> Wed, 29 November 2023 14:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [COSE] Éric Vyncke's No Objection on draft-ietf-cose-cwt-claims-in-headers-09: (with COMMENT)
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On Nov 29, 2023, at 08:57, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> Michael Jones <michael_b_jones@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> is only used to impose normative requirements in the main body of the
>> specification and not in the Privacy Considerations or Security
>> Considerations, which are just that: things to consider - not normative
>> requirements.
> 
> I also think it's bad form to make implementers find the MUSTs in the
> considerations.  They should be in the main body, and just referred to in the
> Considerations.
>   "Because we do XYZ (Section ABC), we are therefore immune to attacks my giant spiders"

I think MUSTs can be fine in the security considerations, eg “random MUST be from a secure source”, but a protocol document should be fully implementable without reading any Considerations section. These sections are additional advice to implementors.


Paul