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

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
tedwards@pbs.org
Senior Manager, Interconnection Engineering
PBS
6453 Stephenson Way
Alexandria, VA 22312
(703) 739-5270

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Gray (LO/EUS) [mailto:eric.gray@ericsson.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:18 PM
To: Thomas Edwards
Cc: gen-art@ietf.org; 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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