[Dime] late comments Re: Start of the WGLC on draft-ietf-dime-drmp-02

[Janet P Gunn <[e-mail]>]

A couple of late comments-

I thought I had commented on this before (in the first draft), but maybe 
it got lost. 

In sec 5.1 it says:

   The United States Wireless Priority Services (WPS) and Government
   Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS) are examples of systems
   designed to address these first responder needs.

But this is not accurate.  GETS and WPS are used by the First Responder 
“Command/Management”, but NOT by the First Responder “Rank and File”.

The web pages for WPS  ( http://www.dhs.gov/wireless-priority-service-wps 
) and GETS ( 
http://www.dhs.gov/government-emergency-telecommunications-service-gets ) 
say that typical users are “responsible for the command and control 
functions critical to management of and response to national security and 
emergency situations, particularly during the first 24 to 72 hours 
following an event.”

So the Fire  Chief might use WPS/GETS to call the local hospital (or an 
individual firefighter), or the hospital administrator might use WPS/GETS 
to call the State Health Department (or an individual doctor), but 
individual  firefighters would not use WPS/GETS to call each other.

You might want to contact the ECRIT working group for examples of priority 
systems that DO support the front-line  firefighters, etc.

My suggestion for rewording the paragraph is 

   The United States Wireless Priority Services (WPS) and Government
   Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS) are examples of systems
   designed to address the command and control aspects of these first
   responder needs.

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For section 5.2 Emergency Call Related Signaling, I would also suggest 
that you coordinate with ECRIT for appropriate wording.  In the “911” 
world, the bottleneck (scarce resource) is the people to answer the phone. 
 Sometimes it is counterproductive to improve the probability of success 
earlier in the call path, as it makes the congestion at the PSAP itself 
worse.

---

Security
I am not a security expert, but I expect the security section needs to be 
beefed up.  As it says in  RFC4412:


   Any resource priority mechanism can be abused to obtain resources and
   thus deny service to other users.  An adversary may be able to take
   over a particular PSTN gateway, cause additional congestion during
   emergencies affecting the PSTN, or deny service to legitimate users.
   In SIP end systems, such as IP phones, this mechanism could
   inappropriately terminate existing sessions and calls.

   Thus, while the indication itself does not have to provide separate
   authentication, SIP requests containing this header are very likely
   to have higher authentication requirements than those without.

I would expect similar verbiage would be appropriate for Diameter.

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Editorial nit
 In the introduction, I think that this sentence
   “As such, all requests are treated the same meaning that all requests 
have the same probability of being  throttled.”
Would read better with a comma
   “As such, all requests are treated the same, meaning that all requests 
have the same probability of being  throttled.”

Happy New Year everyone,

Janet


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Date:   12/23/2015 05:26 AM
Subject:        [Dime] Start of the WGLC on draft-ietf-dime-drmp-02
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