Re: [dane] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7672 (5395)

"Paul Hoffman" <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Sat, 16 June 2018 23:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dane] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7672 (5395)
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This erratum should be rejected. RFC 4035 defines "indeterminate" in 
Section 4.4.3. RFC 4035 and RFC 4033 define "indeterminate" differently.

--Paul Hoffman

On 16 Jun 2018, at 7:29, RFC Errata System wrote:

> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7672,
> "SMTP Security via Opportunistic DNS-Based Authentication of Named 
> Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS)".
>
> --------------------------------------
> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5395
>
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
>
> Section: 2.1.1
>
> Original Text
> -------------
>    DNS records that would be
>    classified "indeterminate" in the sense of [RFC4035] are simply
>    classified as "insecure".
>
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>    DNS records that would be
>    classified "indeterminate" in the sense of [RFC4033] are simply
>    classified as "insecure".
>
> Notes
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> --------------------------------------
> RFC7672 (draft-ietf-dane-smtp-with-dane-19)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : SMTP Security via Opportunistic DNS-Based 
> Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS)
> Publication Date    : October 2015
> Author(s)           : V. Dukhovni, W. Hardaker
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities
> Area                : Security
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG