[Dime] FW: Robert Sparks' Discuss on draft-ietf-dime-priority-avps-05: (withDISCUSS)

["Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <[e-mail]>]

Document editors and shepherd, 

Please address the issues raised by Robert Sparks in his DISCUSS. 

Thanks and Regards,

Dan




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DISCUSS:
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The first paragraph of the Security Considerations section is unclear. It appears to instruct elements (not clear which elements) to ignore integrity protected values. Does it mean integrity protected values that fail integrity check? It indicates that protocol specific error messages should be sent when these values are ignored - which protocol(s)?  Is the paragraph trying to say something more than "local policy can override the policy requested by protocol messages"?