Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-calsify-2446bis-09.txt

[Cyrus Daboo <[e-mail]>]

Hi Vijay,
Thank you for your review.

--On September 16, 2009 4:52:40 PM -0500 "Vijay K. Gurbani" 
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Nits:
>
> 1) Real pedantic nit, sorry.
>   S6.1.4 is about eavesdropping  and not data integrity, right?
>   But the misuse suffered by a cleartext iCalendar object is
>   given both treatments: lack of privacy and loss of data
>   integrity.  A simple suggestion would be to remove "and/or
>   changed" from S6.1.4, and have a new paragraph as follows:
>
>   Data Integrity
>   The iCalendar object is constructed with human-readable
>   clear text.  Any information contained in an iCalendar object
>   may be changed by unauthorized persons while the object is
>   in transit.

Would it suffice to keep the text as-is but change the title of that 
section to "Eavesdropping and Data Integrity"?

> 2) Acknowledgments:
>   s/S.Silverberg/S. Silverberg/

Fixed in my working copy.

> And finally, this is more for curiosity than anything else
>   -- are there any provisions for 3rd party event requests in
> iTIP (i.e., an assistant sending out a request on behalf
> of someone else.)  I could not find any references in
> the draft.

I believe this is covered in Section 2.1.3: 
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-calsify-2446bis-09#section-2.1.3>.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo