[Gen-art] RE: Gen-ART Last Call Review of draft-edwards-urn-smpte-01.txt

["Eric Gray (LO/EUS)" <[e-mail]>]

Chris,

	Thomas has proposed making the following changes and I feel
that these changes more than adequately address the concerns raised
in my Gen-ART review.

Thanks!

--
Eric Gray
Principal Engineer
Ericsson  

>> Regarding draft-edwards-urn-smpte-01, you were concerned about two
>> issues:
>> 
>> 1) Security issues:  You were concerned about references to security
>> considerations for URNs in general.  I believe that the best language
is
>> that of draft-goodwin-iso-urn-01 which states:
>> 
>> "The ISO URN Namespace ID shares the security considerations outlined
in
>> [RFC3406], but has no other known security considerations."
>> 
>> 2) Grammatical nit:  In the first paragraph of the Introduction,
third
>> sentence, 8th line, you suggested replacing "their" with "a
>> committee's".  I will make this change in the I-D, and I have also
>> brought this issue to the SMPTE Engineering Director for Television,
and
>> he agrees with your view that the language is unclear, and this
language
>> may change in future SMPTE documents.
>> 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Edwards [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 3:57 PM
> To: Eric Gray (LO/EUS)
> Cc: [e-mail]; Chris Newman
> Subject: RE: Gen-ART Last Call Review of 
> draft-edwards-urn-smpte-01.txt
> Importance: High
> 
> Eric,
> 
> Thank you very much for your review of draft-edwards-urn-smpte-01!
> 
> You mentioned concern about the reference for the statement: 
> "There are
> no additional security considerations other than those normally
> associated with the use and resolution of URNs in general."
> 
> This statement is present in the Security Considerations 
> sections of the
> following URN registrations RFCs:
> 
> RFC 3043, RFC 3121, RFC 3151, RFC 3541, RFC 3614, RFC 3937, RFC 4179,
> RFC 4198, RFC 4688, RFC 4854
> 
> Unfortunately, none of these RFCs have references to the particular
> security considerations "normally associated with the use and 
> resolution
> of URNs in general."
> 
> While I could pull this language from this I-D, I am concerned about
> removing security language which appears to have been accepted by the
> IETF in 10 RFCs.  I would like to seek Gen-ART's opinion on 
> this issue.
> 
> With regard to the comment about "Participation in these Committees is
> open to all with a bona fide interest in their work," this text is
> sourced from a SMPTE document, thus I would prefer to keep it as it
> stands, but if Gen-ART can document the grammatical concern on this
> issue I could bring it up with SMPTE staff. 
> 
> Thomas Edwards
> [e-mail]
> Senior Manager, Interconnection Engineering
> PBS
> 6453 Stephenson Way
> Alexandria, VA 22312
> [phone]
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Gray (LO/EUS) [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:18 PM
> To: Thomas Edwards
> Cc: [e-mail]; Chris Newman
> Subject: Gen-ART Last Call Review of draft-edwards-urn-smpte-01.txt
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART)
> reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see
> http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html).
> 
> Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments
> you may receive.
> 
> 
> Document: SMPTE URN Definition (draft-edwards-urn-smpte-01.txt)
> 
> Reviewer: Eric Gray
> Review Date:  05/29/2007
> IETF LC End Date:  05/29/2007
> 
> Summary:
> This document is not ready for publication as an Informational RFC.
> 
> Comments:
> 
> In the security considerations section, the author indicates that
> there are known security issues with "use and resolution of URNs 
> in general" but does not provide a reference to where these issues
> are addressed (or at least identified).
> 
> If such a reference exists, this section should cite that reference
> and the author should add that reference to the list of (informative) 
> references.  If no such reference exists, I am not sure what value
> including this statement offers.
> 
> NITs:
> 
> In the first paragraph of the Introduction, third sentence, 8th
> line: I recommend replacing "their" with "a committee's"...
> 
> --
> Eric Gray
> Principal Engineer
> Ericsson 
> 
> 
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