[Gen-art] draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile-27 early Genart review

[Peter Yee via Datatracker <[e-mail]>]

Document: draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile
Title: A Profile for Autonomous System Provider Authorization
Reviewer: Peter Yee
Review result: Ready with Nits

Document: draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile
Title: A Profile for Autonomous System Provider Authorization
Reviewer: Peter Yee
Review result: Ready with Nits

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Document: draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile-27
Reviewer: Peter Yee
Review Date: 2026-07-19
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IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat

Summary:

This draft specifies an Autonomous System Provider Authorization object that is
protected by CMS. The object allows a customer Autonomous System to specify its
Provider Autonomous System(s).

Major issues: None

Minor issues:

Page 3, 1st paragraph after lettered items, 1st sentence: I’m having troubles
understanding how this specification constitutes a profile. A profile of what?
As far as I can see, it specifies an object, its semantics, and related
procedures. Admittedly, that object ends up inside of a CMS wrapper, but I
don’t really think of that as making it a profile of a CMS-protected object. To
be clear, this is a really minor issue, and I could be wrong about what
constitutes a profile.

Nits/editorial comments:

Page 3, 4th paragraph after lettered items, 1st sentence: change “CMS [RFC5652]
protected” to “CMS-protected [RFC 5652]”. Change “content type” to
“content-type”.

Page 6, section 3.3, 1st bullet item: change “CustomerASID” to “customerASID”.

Page 6, section 3.3, 4th bullet item: change “An” to “A”.

Page 7, section 5.2, 1st sentence: Should “CAs” be “CAS”? I’m unclear which
entity does the signing, but if it is the customer AS, then it should be “CAS”.

Page 8, 1st paragraph, 3rd sentence: insert “as” between “CAS” and “invalid”.
Append a comma after “e.g.”